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India is pushing a deep-water port at Great Nicobar to cut reliance on foreign hubs like Colombo/Singapore, which handle much of India’s transshipped containers. Sitting ~600 km from the Malacca Strait, the hub aims to shave 1.5–3 days and $200–300 per TEU from routes—turning time saved into cost and working-capital gains. Backers frame it as “supply-chain sovereignty” in the Indo-Pacific; critics flag ecological risks on the island.
