Ahmedabad: A plea seeking the cancellation of environmental and coastal regulation zone (CRZ) clearances granted to the Deendayal Port Authority (formerly Kandla port) for development work is filed in the High Court of Gujarat. The petitioners, Saleman Jakhariya and Bharat Patel submitted before the court that the clearances granted by the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) and the Gujarat coastal zone management authority (GCZMA) are in the wrong category. They...Read More

Kandla: DP World has won a major concession to develop, operate and maintain the mega-container terminal at Deendayal port in Gujarat, on the western coast of India. The project involves the construction of a mega-container terminal at Tuna-Tekra through a Public-Private Partnership (PPP). Once complete, the terminal will include a 1,100-metre berth, and will be capable of handling vessels carrying more than 18,000 TEUs. Total capacity will be 2.19 million TEUs. The contract was awarded by...Read More

Kandla: Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Shri Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated and laid foundation stones of projects worth Rs. 270 crore at Deendayal Port, Kandla, Gujarat . The Minister inaugurated Oil jetty no. 7 worth Rs.73.92 crore at Deendayal Port, Kandla in the presence of Shri Shantanu Thakur, MoS, MoPSW, Shri Shripad Naik, MoS, MoPSW and other senior dignitaries. The jetty will enhance the liquid handling capacity, by 2.00 MMTPA, of mainly edible oil, and fulfil the fu...Read More

New Delhi: The government has announced some relaxation to its order dated 13th May issued by Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Department of Commerce on restricting wheat exports. It has been decided that wherever wheat consignments have been handed over to Customs for examination and have been registered into their systems on or prior to 13.5.2022, such consignments would be allowed to be exported. The government also allowed a wheat consignment headed for Egypt, which was alread...Read More

New Delhi: Based on intelligence developed jointly with officers of Gujarat ATS , the Officers of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) are currently examining a consignment, imported by an Uttarakhand based firm at Kandla Port. The consignment arrived at Kandla Port from Bander Abbas port, Iran. The consignment, imported in 17 containers (10,318 bags), has gross weight of 394 MT and was declared as “gypsum powder”. So far, 205.6 kg of heroin, valued at Rs. 1439 crores in illicit mark...Read More

Bhuh: A ship containing rock salt from Pakistan via Dubai was halted by Customs department at Kandla port. In order to evade heavy duty levied on goods from Pakistan, the importer had routed the consignment via Dubai. However due to extra vigil on such consignments, the customs department found out that the origin of consignment was in Pakistan. The importer will face legal action including 200 per cent duty on this 25 tonne cargo of rock salt. The assessment process was on as per the Customs of...Read More

Kandla: Despite the constraints arising in international trade and shipping due to the ongoing Covid pandemic and the resulting constraints on the cargo handling front, Deendayal Port Trust under Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterway, has crossed the 100 MMT milestone on 10.01.2022, and in the process became the 1st Govt. Sector Major Port, to cross the mark in the year 2021-22. Incidentally, in the current fiscal year, DPT has crossed the milestone 4 weeks ahead in comparison of the last fis...Read More

Gandhinagar: Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) Gujarat has nabbed a traffic inspector (port) of Deendayal Port Trust (Kandla) in Kutch district of Gujarat or demanding Rs. 2,000 bribe. According to ACB, accused Babulal Jivaji Mosalpuriya had demanded Rs. 2,000 bribe for smooth administrative procedure to unload a ship that had come from New Zealand with cargo of wood. The ship was at shade number - 3 where Babulal was on duty. He allegedly demanded Rs. 2,000 bribe for no harassments and smooth adm...Read More

Hazira: Adani Hazira Ports Pvt Ltd (AHPPL) will build the temporary infrastructure at Hazira port for Ghogha-Hazira Ro-Ro ferry service. Deendayal Port Trust (DPT) has issued the letter of acceptance to AHPPL in this regard.AHPPL operates a container terminal at Hazira. AHPPL quoted the lowest - Re one - (for 11 months) in the bids invited by Deendayal Port Trust (DPT) which is eventually going to operate the ferry service. Adani has agreed to provide us the temporary infrastructure in th...Read More

Gandhinagar: Indian Customs officials detained a ship named Da Cui Yun -- bearing a Hong Kong flag and bound for Port Qasim in Karachi from Jiangyin port on the Yangtze river in China’s Jiangsu province -- for wrongly declaring an autoclave, which can be used in the launch process of ballistic missiles, as an industrial dryer. The vessel was intercepted on the basis of intelligence tip-off. According to The Hindustan Times report, the ship, intercepted on February 3, is undergoing a detai...Read More