New Delhi, Nov. 13 -- India and Nepal on Thursday signed a landmark agreement to deepen trade connectivity through rail, expanding key transit routes that link the Himalayan nation to Indian ports and global markets, the ministry of commerce and industry said in a statement.

At a bilateral meeting in New Delhi, Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal and his Nepalese counterpart Anil Kumar Sinha exchanged a letter amending the Protocol to the Treaty of Transit between the two countries.

A Treaty of Transit is a bilateral agreement that permits goods from one country to move through another's territory, facilitating smoother access to international trade routes and markets.

The move will allow the movement of rail-based freight between Jog...