TMI BlogMeasures to ease road congestion- Movement of all export goods laden containers originating or dispatched from all Container Freight Stations to the Chennai Port- Issuance of the Public Notice -Reg.X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ue of traffic congestion in approach roads from the Container Freight Stations to the Chennai Port. 2. This issue has been raised at various forums including the Honorable High Court of Madras in the Writ Petition 17477 of 2011, where the petitioners sought to take steps to ease congestion of movement of containerized cargo to and from the Chennai Port. The Honorable High Court of Madras ordered the Customs to find amicable solution to solve the problem. Pursuant to the said orders of the Court, the Chief Commissioner of Customs, Chennai conducted a meeting with all the stakeholders on 14.02.2012 and wherein it was concluded by all stakeholders that the blocking of the traffic by the container trailers carrying export cargo, which are no ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... iscuss the movement of export goods laden containers from the CFS to the Port and a draft notice on this subject, was circulated among the stakeholders to elicit their views. As all the stakeholders broadly agreed to the mechanism proposed in the said draft notice in principle, the members were asked to suggest modifications, if required in the next meeting. 6. In the second meeting held on 06.05.14 on the same issue chaired by the Commissioner of Customs, the members suggested some changes in the mechanism. As there was disagreement with this mechanism by MCC after the said meeting, their concerns were heard and addressed in the two meetings chaired by the Chief Commissioner of Customs and the Chairman, Port Trust respectively. 7. Ac ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... torily in the soft form) of real time data of goods allowed inside the CFS for export. The record shall contain following details i.e. the Shipping Bill number with corresponding container, Vessel Rotation Number, Vessel Name, IMO number, Date of Loading in the Vessel, Date of sailing of the vessel and EGM Number. The data shall be made available to the Customs as and when called for. 9. The Customs Cargo Service provider or the Custodian (CFS) after fulfilling the conditions mentioned in the Para 8(i) and 8(ii), get NOC from the Enquiry Unit, Custom House and submit the same to the Docks-Admin Section within 7 working days from the date of the issue of this Notice and only those Customs Cargo Service providers or the Custodians (CFS), w ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ested Invoice, Packing List, ARE-1 and Annexure C1 form etc., before the Examining Officer/Appraising Officer in the CFS. The Examining Officer/Appraising Officer will verify the documents produced and if found correct the examination report will be entered in the system and Shipping Bill will be generated in the respective CFS itself after grant of Let Export Order (LEO). If the RMS has selected the Shipping Bill for examination or inspection, the RMS Instructions shall be executed by the Examining Officer/Appraising Officer and report entered accordingly by the Appraiser in the system and the Shipping Bill will be generated in the respective CFS itself after grant of LEO. Those containers which are examined/inspected in the CFS shall be r ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... o Service providers or the Custodians (CFS) are hereby directed to ensure that the export goods laden containers shall not leave the Container Freight Station to Port without the mandatory documents as provided for, in the Facility Circular 01/2012 dated 24.02.2012 issued by this Custom House. 14. Further in exercise of powers conferred under the Regulation 7 (2) of the Handling of Cargo in Customs Areas Regulations, 2009, in order to regulate the entry of export goods laden containers to the Chennai Port Trust, for efficient handling of such goods, the Chennai .Port Trust and the Terminal Operators, M/S CCTL and M/S CITPL are hereby directed to ensure that the export goods laden containers hauled by road and originating from ICDs and SE ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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