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Business EconomyPosted at: May 24 2016 7:26PM


Reforms in major ports to promote “Ease of doing Business”

New Delhi, May 24 (UNI) The Ministry of Shipping is working on series of reforms to promote trade and improve India’s ranking in the “Trading Across Borders’ indicator of World Bank’s Doing Business Report.
According to a ministry note, the government in the past year has taken up several initiatives to make the ports business friendly and more efficient in terms of dealing with cargo and related services.

The note says, “Three terminals of the major port JNPT has changed its interface and has adopted the web based e-form-13 electronic interface. Other ports are also been told to adopt the same so that the entire manual process get replaced to provide easy and transparent system at the ports.”
In a process to promote “Ease of doing Business” the Ministry has issued instructions to all Major Ports to facilitate and provide land area for setting up of laboratories for animal/plant quarantine, for textile and the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
The Ministry has directed all Major Ports to extend the Direct Port Delivery facility to all Accredited Client Programme (ACP) clients and to provide additional land area for parking of DPD containers.
According to the note, in order to decongest Major Port, the Ministry has taken up the issue of reduction of fee and charges with Tariff Authority for Major Ports to issue direction to all Major Ports, BOT Operators operating there at, to fix separate lower charges for cargo and vessels related services and also give a special discount for the services rendered to exporter and importers after regular hours.
Accordingly, Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP) has issued direction to all Major Ports/ BOT Operators to prescribe lower charges for cargo/ vessels related services and also give a special discount for the services rendered after regular hours.
To expedite the process and make it fast Installation of container scanners at Major Ports has been made. Major Ports were also directed to implement of issuance of E-delivery Orders. MoPT & NMPT have informed that all the financial transactions pertaining to vessel and cargo related activities are through e-payment and system has been introduced for accepting e-delivery order from the shipping agents.
Integration of Major Ports filing system with Customs software has been done to help the customers and business houses. Major Ports are using advance information of import cargo online by way of accessing IGM message through (PCS) integration with Customs software ICEGATE. This process has cut down dwell time significantly.
To remove bottlenecks in rail, road connectivity for faster evacuation of cargo, all Major Ports have been directed to take necessary corrective measures.
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