The eight-member Myanmarese team, led by Rakhine state port officer U Tun Htay, arrived at Champhai, a border town in eastern Mizoram yesterday and the officials have proceeded to the site.
The ambassador and his first secretary, along with a team of Indian officials, will fly to Lawngtlai in helicopter tomorrow and inspect the proposed land customs station.
The land customs station at Zorinpui is crucial to the Kaladan Multi-modal Transit Transport Project, being built by India and Myanmar to facilitate trade between the two nations. The project, comprising waterway component and roadway component, will open up not only in Mizoram but all of India's northeastern states as hinterland for the Sittwe Port.
Traditional informal trade transactions have been carried out through this route for generations.