Growing markets in Asia are attractive, but large exports have been impossible because of transport difficulties.
"We're at the centre of the country and we're surrounded by transport difficulties," Brittan said.
London commuters faced further transport difficulties on Thursday as a tube strike continued to cripple services across the capital.
Scotland's deputy first minister, John Swinney, said: "The impact of this latest round of flooding is causing transport difficulties and putting properties at risk of flooding.
But this is not to say that sustainable transport solutions from elsewhere are necessarily the panacea for Mumbai's transport difficulties.
Scotland's Deputy First Minister John Swinney said: "The impact of this latest round of flooding is causing transport difficulties and putting properties at risk of flooding.
The pre-Christmas snow and consequent transport difficulties were spoken of as if everybody in Britain spent their entire time longing to get to work instead of welcoming an excuse to stay at home.
In a terse conference call with journalists – the bank avoided face-to-face encounters, citing transport difficulties in London as a result of the Olympics – the bank's chairman, Marcus Agius, refused to provide more details, cutting off questions with a curt "enough".
News of transport difficulties came despite months of planning and preparation being put into making sure the event got off to a good start.
When implementing watershed scale models for predicting pathogen transport, difficulties related to the selection of model input parameters are common (Martinez et al. [2014]).
