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TMI BlogTranshipment of international/domestic cargo in containers to Indian ports from foreign ports and vice versa through ChennaiX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ersk Line (steamer agent) and M/s. Chennai Container Terminal Pvt. Ltd. (custodian) have informed that a direct main line vessel from the USA will be making a weekly call to the Chennai port. Accordingly, they have requested for the customs procedure to be put in place to handle the two-way transhipment of containers, to Indian ports from foreign ports and vice versa through Chennai. The said request was examined in accordance with the provisions of the Section 54 of the Customs Act, 1962, Goods Imported (Conditions of Transhipment) Regulations, 1995, and the Board's circular 14/2007-Customs, dated 16-03-2007 on LCL international transhipment and the following procedure is prescribed: II. This Public Notice has four parts: ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... of the transhipment containers and if any pilferage is noticed during their custody, the custodian shall be liable to pay duty on the pilfered goods. (d) The custodian shall maintain a vessel wise record of all the import and export transhipment containers and submit a monthly summary to the Assistant / Deputy Commissioner of Customs (Preventive). IV Role and responsibilities of the steamer agent, in the transhipment process: (a) The steamer agents shall ensure that the containers transhipped both ways, by the mainline/feeder vessels, are sealed with one time bottle seal at the ports of loading/origin. (b) The steamer agent shall file an Import General Manifest (IGM) under Sec.30 of th ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... shall be responsible for the re-export of empty containers, within six months from the date of import of such containers, as specified under Notification 104/94 Customs, dated 16-03-1994. (f) The steamer agent shall be responsible for obtaining and producing an acknowledgment from the destination ports, for the receipt of the transhipped containers. V Procedures to be observed in the case of import cargo with Chennai as the point of disaggregation of the imported cargo: (a) On arrival of the direct main line vessel from abroad, the steamer agent shall file an Import General Manifest (IGM) with the prescribed annexures, indicating the final destination of all the transhipment containers, port-wise, t ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... n arrival of the mainline vessel, in the ITP Cell. (f) If the ITSA is found in order, the proper officer will permit the transhipment. The custodian shall commence the loading of the import transhipment containers on the various vessels an route to the ports of final destination, only after the transhipment permission is granted, by the officer of the ITP Cell. (g) Three copies of the ITSA (two, in sealed cover), bearing the permission, will be returned to the steamer agent. It will be the responsibility of the steamer agent to obtain an acknowledgement of receipt (for the transhipped containers), on the face of the copy of the ITSA, from the customs, at the destination port. All such copies of ITSA, bearing acknow ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... t is found that the load port one-time bottle seal has been broken or tampered with, the custodian shall immediately inform the ITP Cell. (c) Where the load port bottle seal is found broken or tampered with, Customs may carry out 100% examination of the container before it is resealed. At the time of loading of the export transhipment containers on board the main line vessel destined abroad, the Customs officer of the ITP Cell may examine the load port one-time bottle seal. (d) The steamer agent and the custodian shall ensure that the export transhipment containers are transhipped expeditiously. If the same are not transhipped within thirty days of unloading, the provisions of Section 48, relating to the procedure ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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