NEW DELHI : Recent cataclysmic events in Syria may have rendered India’s search for alternative and faster trade routes more critical. Last year during the G20 summit in Delhi India, together with the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdel Aziz, had launched the initiative for the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEEC).

This trade route, consisting of a multi-modal transport Corridor, was meant to connect India to the UAE, from where it traveled overland via Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Palestine,  and Israel and further to Greece and . . .