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ASSOCIATION OF MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT OPERATORS OF INDIA
Weekly News 30.05.2013—06.06.2013 Volume 1, Issue 11 Inside this issue:
Client Advisory—Brazilin
Custom Regulation 1 FFFAI 21t Biennial Conven-
tion 1
JNPT : 24th Anniversary 2
Vasan promotes Indian op-
portunities in Hong Kong 2
India plans safeguard duties
on iron, steel from China 2
Handicrafts exports up 13%
in April 2 Textile exports likely to
grow by 15% in 2013-14 3 India may freeze sugar ex-
ports 3 MSC Valeria to create history
at Mundra 3 Cochin Port reduces roll-on,
roll-off ferry service tariff 4 Vizhinjam to be country's
deepest port 4 Kerala CM releases Vizhinjam
master plan, detailed project 4 FIEO to setup facilitation
centres in Gujarat for export 5 Balmer Lawrie to set up
logistics park near Kolkata 5 Kattupalli Port set to begin
activities on June 6 5 Humor
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The Normative instruction from Federal Revenue of Brazil No. 1.356/2013 has come in force on May
6th, 2013, and it has made substantial changes in the procedures related to the Customs clearance and
Cargo Release.
It exempts the Importers/Consignees from presenting the Original Bill of Lading to Cus-
toms Authorities, Terminals and Bonded Terminals, for releasing of cargo.
In consequence of this amendment Importers/Consignees will be able to obtain the release of cargo
even if the Original Bill of Lading is in the Shipper´s hand.
In view of this new Brazilian Customs Procedure, CMA CGM Agencies India Pvt. Ltd. informs that
according to Clause 233 of their Bill of Lading, the Carrier will not be responsible for any claim arising
due to delivery of cargo without the Original Bill of Lading. The Clause 233 of their Bill of Lading is
reproduced for benefit of our readers.
Clause 233 - Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this bill of lading Merchant is advised and
agrees that according to destination country law and practice the Carrier has no control on the car-
go's release once discharged. Moreover Carrier has no interference on Consignee's decision to re-
move the cargo from one bonded terminal to another. Cargo is delivered through terminals to Re-
ceivers. This may be done without surrendering original bills of lading to the ship agent. In such case,
the Carrier will not be responsible for any claim due to delivery of cargo without original bills of lad-
ing. Thus Shipper must ensure they are paid for their cargo prior to the beginning of the voyage.
Brazilian Custom Regulation—Delivery of Cargo without the original Bill of Lading
With less than two
weeks for the event, the
c o u n t d o w n f o r
the FFFAI Biennial Con-
vention scheduled from
14th -16th June, has
begun.
There has been an overwhelming response of registrations for the FFFAI convention. A record num-
ber of 360 Indian and International delegates have registered for the Convention, which will be held at
Hotel Leela Kempinski, Gurgaon. Both Resident as well as Non- Resident registrations have been
closed.
FFFAI 21st Biennial Convention: Final Countdown begins
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust celebrated its 24th Anniversary which was at-
tended by the families of the employees and other residents in the JNPT
Township.
During this event, Shri S. K. Kaul, Chief Manager (Admn.) & Secy. congratulat-
ed the employees and officers of the Port in achieving the desired targets in
the Export-Import trade by putting the Port in the global scenario.
JNPT : 24th Anniversary
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The Union Minister for
Shipping, Mr. G. K. Vasan,
and his team had an inter-
active session with mem-
bers of the Hong Kong
Shipowners Association,
during which the latter
were encouraged to use
Indian ports given the ca-
p a c i t y au gmen t a t ion
achieved in recent times and the business oppor-
tunities available during a visit to Hong Kong last
week. The Indian delegation comprised Mr. R.
Srinivasa Naik, Director, Ministry of Shipping,
Mr. R. Srinivasagopalan Executive Director,
Indian Ports Association, Mr. R. P. S. Kahlon,
Chairman, Kolkata Port Trust, and Mr. S.
Natarajan, Chairman In-Charge, V. O. Chidam
-baranar Port Trust.
The delegation also held discussions with
Prof. Anthony Cheung Bing-leung, Secretary
for Transport, which touched upon how
Hong Kong could assist in port development
and logistics improvement projects in India.
There was mutual understanding on various
port-related issues, stressed an official
release.
The Minister met with members of the
Indian Chamber, Hong Kong, and Mr. M.
Arunachalam, President, Overseas Indian
Organization of Hong Kong.
The discussions with the various stake-
holders would definitely result in Hong
Kong companies participating in port
development projects in India and more
shipping lines using Indian ports, the re-
lease highlighted.
Vasan promotes Indian maritime & logistics opportunities in Hong Kong
India plans to impose safeguard duties on some iron and steel pipes,
tubes and profiles to protect domestic producers from a flood of
imports from countries like China and Italy.
The Directorate General of Safeguards under the Finance Ministry
has initiated an investigation on impact of large scale import of seam-
less pipes, tubes and hollow profiles of iron or non-ally steel from
countries such as China and Italy.
"It has been found that prima facie increased imports of seamless
pipes and tubes have caused and are threatening to cause serious
injury to the domestic producers. And as such it has been decided to
initiate an investigation
in the matter," it said
in a notice.
"The imports have
i n c r e a s e d f r o m
307,581 tons in 2009-
10 to 373,777 tons till
2012-13, recording an
increase of 22 per cent," it said adding even though there was a de-
cline in 2012-13 over the previous fiscal, but quarter wise analysis
showed a sharp rising trend from Q2-Q3 on absolute basis.
India plans safeguard duties on iron, steel items from China
Handicraft exports jumped 13 per cent to $ 256.8 million in April
this year, despite sluggish demand in European markets, according to
the data provided by the Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts
(EPCH).
In the same month last year, these exports stood at $ 227.16 million.
“There has been an increase in the number of orders from tradition-
al markets like the US. Also, the demand has been good from emerg-
ing ones such as China, Latin America and Africa," EPCH Executive
Director Rakesh Kumar said.
Handicrafts exports up 13% in April
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India may freeze sugar exports
India, in spite of having a large surplus, is expected to withhold exports of white
sugar for the next several months due to uncompetitive prices, according to a
senior industry executive.
"While domestic white sugar prices, ex-mill, are now equivalent to about $550-
560 a tonne, the Brazilian variety is available for $470, free-on-board," said an
industry player on the sidelines of an international conference. He added that
prices of the commodity in the country are expected to remain around the same
level due to the higher prices of sugarcane, while international prices will be under
downward pressure due to a large global surplus.
MSC VALERIA 14,000 TEU vessel to create history at Mundra Port on her maiden call on June 4
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S. A., of Geneva, vessel mv
MSC VALERIA, the largest container vessel of 14,000 TEUs will cre-
ate history at Mundra Port. The container vessel will call at Mundra
Port 4th June, 2013. The MSC VALERIA has an overall Length of
365.5 meters (1,199.2 feet) at a draft of 16.03 meters to call at any
Indian Port.
MSC VALERIA is currently operating on the “Dragon Service” plying
between China and West Mediterranean.
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S. A., of Geneva, is a private-
ly owned shipping line and presently the second largest Contain-
er Shipping Line in the world.
MSC was operating 458 container vessels with an intake capacity of
2,274,000 TEU's as of end April 2013.
MSC is the leading provider of direct port calls, serving the 6 conti-
nents and calling at 316 ports through 200 direct and combined
weekly liner services.
MSC has three Weekly Services, IPAK, ISES and Nhava Sheva – Sala-
lah calling at Nhava Sheva, Mundra & Colombo thereby offering a
comprehensive coverage from both North West and South East
India.
MSC also operates its own feeder vessels between Kolkata and
Chennai to Colombo. With two mainline departures a week ex In-
dia to Europe and through its global network of services, MSC
covers the globe offering coverage to Europe, North America, Cen-
tral America, East & West Coast of South America, West Africa ,
North Africa, East Africa, South Africa, Red Sea, Gulf, Australia ,
New Zealand, China & Far East ports. MSC also offers reefer cover-
age to all these sectors.
There is an interesting tradition in MSC whereby MSC ships are
named after the daughter’s name of MSC employees.
Even in this case “MSC VALERIA” is named after the daughter of
Capt. Michele Bordiga, one of the MSC Geneva Directors, who
heads the Line management responsible for the India Sub - Conti-
nent region.
The Government said it expects textile exports to grow by 15 per cent in 2013-14, marking
a turnaround for such shipments that declined by 4 per cent to $ 22.2 billion during April-
February last fiscal.
“We hope textile exports will do better this fiscal. It is expected that these exports would
grow by 15 per cent in 2013-14 as the demand from western markets is rising,” Minister of
State for Textiles Panabaaka Lakshmi said after inaugurating an exhibition titled ‘Shilpangan’
here.
Textile exports likely to grow by 15% in 2013-14
The Cochin Port Trust has decided to decrease
the tariff of the ro-ro ferry service connecting
Willingdson Island to International Container
Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) Vallarpadam
from 1st June.
The port will also boost the hours of operation
of the service. A decision in this regard was
taken in answer to the request of the Container
Carrier Owners Association, which is aggrieved
at heavy delay experienced on the city roads,
which of late, had resulted in even missing of
sailing schedules.
Various road traffic restrictions implemented
in the city in recent times had adversely af-
fected the container trucks to the maxi-
mum The Association stated that further
restrictions anticipated during the work of
construction of the Metro Rail would add to
the existing level of inconvenience and delay
for container trucks. LOTS Shipping Compa-
ny who operate the Ro-Ro Ferry Service
facilitating the trucks access to the terminal
without transiting the city roads were called
for a discussion in this matter.
The LOTS officials have consented to operate
service from 3 AM to 10PM. The Ro-Ro
Ferry can accommodate 20 TEUs in one trip
and has a transit capacity of 480 TEUs per
day. The company also agreed to increase the
working hours if the demand increase. In
response to the concern on pricing of the
services, the company has agreed to re-
duce the ferry charge to Rs.600/- and
Rs.950/- for a single transit for a 20 feet
and 40 feet truck respectively. The rates
would come down by another Rs.100/-
during the non peak hours (from 10 PM
to 3 AM).
According to the company, the ferry
charges would be less than the cost of
additional consumption of diesel for the
35KMs transit through the city. The com-
pany has promised to maintain a pre-
advertised schedule to facilitate planned
and reliable movement for the container
trucks. Parking yard have been provided
at Bolghatty and Willingdon Island while
the trucks wait their turn. The increased
use of the Ro-Ro ferry is expected to
ease the city roads substantially and pro-
vide more reliable last mile connectivity
to ICTT.
Cochin Port reduces roll-on, roll-off ferry service tariff
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The Vizhinjam international seaport will have the
deepest draft in the country and it will be able to
berth mega vessels of 18,000 TEU capacity.
The master plan for the proposed Rs 4,010-
crore Vizhinjam project, which was unveiled,
says the port will have several such unique fea-
tures and is expected to attract many interna-
tional vessels that pass through the western
coast. The first phase of the project will in-
clude a 800-metre-long berth with a breakwa-
ter area of 3,180 metres and an adjoining 500
-metre-long container yard.
The highlights of the master plan include a
500-metre fish landing centre for fishermen, a
modern 300-metre cruise terminal to pro-
mote tourism-related activities and perma-
nent base stations for Indian Navy and
Coast Guard. "Apart from the immediate
monetary benefits like getting around Rs
500 crore for providing a base for the
defence forces, this station will also
spruce up the national marine security
and even get us a faster environmental
clearance from the centre,'' port and ex-
cise Minister K Babu said.
Vizhinjam to be country's deepest port
Chief
M in -
ister
(CM)
M r .
Oommen Chandy has released master plan and
detailed project report (DPR) pertaining to the
Vizhinjam container terminal and international
port. He said, the State Government expects
that the project will acquire environmental clear-
ance within the next 5 months.
The environmental impact assessment report is
now before the State Pollution Control
Board, which has announced the conduct of a
public hearing on June 29.
The CM said, “We have no doubt about se-
curing environmental clearance. A very ex-
haustive study covering all seasons of the
year, as per terms of reference given, has
been done.”
The Vizhinjam International Seaport Limited
(VISL), would wait till the environmental
clearance before floating tenders for a port
operator, Ports Minister Mr. K. Babu said.
The project would attract more depositor
attention once the hurdle of environmental
clearance was tackled. The State was
continuing its efforts to acquire the pro-
ject exemption from the Cabotage rules.
A single entity, consortium led by
Welspun Infratech, alone had qualified in
the bid for port operator when the pro-
ject was put up for tender the previous
time.
This was not acceptable to the Govern-
ment since it was thought it would attract
better bids once investor confidence went
up after environmental clearance and
Cabotage exemption were secured.
Kerala CM releases Vizhinjam master plan, detailed project
In a bid to
push ex-
p o r t s
from Gu-
jarat, the
F e d e r a -
tion of
I n d i a n
E x p o r t s
Organizations (FIEO) said it plans to set up trade
facilitation centres in export centric clusters of
the state.
The recommendation to the State Government
from the apex export body set up by Union
Commerce Ministry comes at a time when Cen-
tre has set challenging targets for international
trade by 2020. The Centre also expects the
states to supplement them through their own
efforts.
"Right now India roughly has close to 2 per
cent of world's share in goods and services
we are looking to double it to 4 per cent by
2020," Director General and CEO, FIEO
Ajay Sahai said.
"As per our estimate, the world trade by
2020 would be of the size of $62 trillion dol-
lar, a share of 4 per cent would translate into
our export import trade of $2,500 billion,
from the present levels of $750 billion," he
said adding that exports then could be in
range of $1,000-1,200 billion.
"If targets of this magnitude are to be met
then the state also has to supplement them
through their own efforts. More and more
entrepreneurs need to join exports," Sahai
said.
"So in a first, we have begun capacity building
exercise in Gujarat where entrepreneurs
and state officials shall be trained during
two day workshops. It shall be done at 13
places across the state," he said.
"Our objective is to set up at least nine
facilitation centres in export centric clus-
ters of Gujarat, which could serve as one
touch points for all export related issues,"
Sahai said.
"We are in talks with the Gujarat Gov-
ernment one or two facilitation centres
are likely to come in this financial year,
while rest are expected to be set up by
next fiscal year end," he said adding that
idea is FIEO and Gujarat Government
jointly set up these centres to boost ex-
ports.
FIEO to jointly set up facilitation centres in Gujarat for export
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Balmer Lawrie & Co has got the board’s approv-
al to set up a logistics park at Dankuni near the
metropolis involving an investment of Rs 150
crore, an official of the company said. The com-
pany got the approval from the board approv-
al to acquire 55 acres near Dankuni for a
logistics park,” Viren Sinha, Chairman and
Managing Director said. The land would be
directly purchased from the owners and the
targeted outgo on account of this was Rs 40
crore, he said. The land had been identified
and talks with land owners were positive.
The park would have a container freight sta-
tion, rail connectivity and warehousing facili-
ties, he said. Besides this, Balmer Lawrie
would also set up a new plant at Navi
Mumbai at an investment of Rs 100 crore
for manufacturing steel barrels and a multi
-modal logistics park at Vizag in collabora-
tion with Vizag Port Trust at a cost of Rs
220 crore. The company would, however,
close down its tea business as the turno-
ver from the division was insignificant,
Sinha said.
Balmer Lawrie to set up logistics park near Kolkata
Having recorded the first successful trial run of
imported goods on April 18, the Larsen and
Toubro’s Kattupalli Port is all set to commence
import as well as export activities for the indus-
try on June 6.
The Rs.3,800-crore project is jointly floated by
L&T and Tamil Nadu Industrial Development
Corporation (TIDCO). The port received the
first vessel of X-press Feeders (Thailand Chennai
Express–TCX service) on April 18 carrying 76
forty-foot equivalent units of import containers
containing auto spare parts for a Japanese firm.
Noting that the consignment was successfully
handled there, NYK Lines (Nippon Yusen Kai-
sha), one of the leading Japanese shipping compa-
nies, has announced that three vessels will arrive
here on June 6, 13 and 27.
The vessels will depart from Laem Chabang
(Thailand) on Wednesdays and will call at
Singapore, Port Klang, Kattupalli and Chennai
Port and return to Laem Chabang via Singa-
pore on Wednesdays with a turnaround time
of 21 days.
NYK Lines would be conducting trial runs
for a month at Kattupalli to arrive at a final
decision about making its services a regular
affair. The vessel will be bringing in auto spare
parts and other consumer items and, on the
return, carry agro products and granites, the
port officials said.
Owned by L&T Ports, Kattupalli International
Container Terminal is managed by Manila-
based International Container Terminal Ser-
vices. The port is located adjacent to
Ennore Port and has a capacity to handle
1.2 million containers per year through
two berths. The ports shipyard is yet to
be inaugurated.
“The commencement of TCX Service
between Kattupalli and Laem Chabang is a
welcome move. To cash in on the brisk
trade between the two countries, we
urge the Customs to allow more Con-
tainer Freight Stations to operate at Kat-
tupalli to handle export documents. Oth-
erwise, we have to depend on Chennai
Port,” said a Custom House Agent.
Kattupalli Port set to begin export-import activities on June 6
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