# Sittwe (MM AKY)

**UN/LOCODE:** MM AKY  
**Country:** Burma  
**Water Body:** Bay of Bengal; Indian Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Small  
**Harbor Type:** Open Roadstead  
**GPS:** 20.1333, 92.9000

Built with Indian grant financing and opened in May 2023, Sittwe functions less as a conventional trade port than as the seaward anchor of a transit corridor. The site at the mouth of the Kaladan river on the Bay of Bengal forms part of the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project, which links Kolkata by sea to Sittwe, onward up-river to Paletwa, and finally by road to the northeast Indian state of Mizoram. The new terminal comprises riverside pier jetties able to handle only small general-cargo vessels; by May 2026 the port reached its 300th vessel call since inauguration. Large-scale container or dangerous-goods handling is not confirmed — shallow depths near 5 m and the open-roadstead setting cap vessel sizes. Its working hinterland is the Kaladan river route toward Paletwa, whose full connection to Mizoram is expected around 2027, while political instability in Rakhine weighs on commercial uptake. For Myanmar's regular container trade, Yangon and the Thilawa terminal remain the relevant alternative.

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