India reduces ports for Scrap imports to 14

Published: Mar 30, 2017 17:34

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India has decided to reduce the number of ports for importing scraps to 14.

INDIA March 30 2017 2:49 PM

MUMBAI (Scrap Register): India has decided to reduce the number of ports for importing scraps to 14. The imports were normally carried out through 26 ports including inland container depots (ICDs) across the country. About a dozen ports were disallowed.
The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), under the commerce ministry, said that import of scrap would take place only through the 14 ports and no exceptions would be allowed even in case of export oriented units (EOUs) and special economic zones.
The ports that are designated to import scrap are Chennai, Cochin, Elmore, JNPT, Kandla, Mormugao, Mumbai, New Mangalore, Paradip, Tuticorin, Vishakhapatnam, Pipava, Mundra and Kolkata.
These 14 ports will also import un-shredded scrap till March 31, 2018. The inland container depots at Loni, Ludhiana, Dadri, Nagpur, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Udaipur, Kanpur, and Malanpur among others have been removed from the list.

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