While China grabs the headlines with its galloping exports, India is quietly setting out to become a car manufacturing and export juggernaut. Given inadequate Indian port facilities, much of India's car exports are being transhipped through Sri Lanka's principle port of Colombo, which is positioning itself to exploit the coming trade boom. Most of the world's leading carmakers - from Europe, Japan, South Korea and the US - have opened plants in India or plan to do so. And new car carrier trades are emerging, with manufacturing shifting to centres envisaged in New Delhi's 'automotive mission plan'.
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