India and Japn have agreed to enhance their interaction through the existing forums and through port-to-port exchanges. These issues came up for a discussion between Union Minister of Shipping GK Vasan, who is on an official visit to Japan and his Japanese counterpart Akihiro Ohta, Minister of land, Industries and Transport and Tourism, Government of Japan.
The Indian Minister explained the developments that were taking place in India in the Ports sector and assured Ohta that concerns regarding infrastructure and connectivity of ports are being addressed expeditiously.
The ports in Ennore and Chennai are catering to the Japanese car exporters like Toyota and Nissan who have so far exported about 42,000 and 3,00,000 cars respectively from these ports, Vasan said.