Myanmar’s Dawei port megaproject could offer a regional shipping shortcut, but viability doubts linger

• The Dawei special economic zone (SEZ) in southern Myanmar was conceived as one of Southeast Asia's great new gateways when planning began about two decades ago.
• The plan was to develop a regional town pinned in the deep south of a rural fishing peninsula, into a world-class deep-sea port on the Andaman Sea, sur