NEW DELHI (AP) - After more than a century on the drawing board, the ambitious Sethusamudram Shipping Canal project, billed as India's Suez, looks set to become reality.
The US$550-million channel will cut through a chain of islands between India and Sri Lanka, reducing the transit time between India's east and west coasts and cutting shipping costs as well as the government's fuel-import bill, proponents say.
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