
September 25, 2019: Indian Ports Association (IPA) has launched a value-added service - Electronic Delivery Order (eDO) facility - to its cloud based new generation technology Port Community System ‘PCS1x’.
The eDO is a single platform to perform all eDO related activities including e-invoice and e-payments, with highly secure data interchange between requester and provider.
The service will help the trade save time and money in clearing cargo, speed up delivery order extension and the empty offload process.
Stakeholders can request invoice, view invoice, make payment and secure eDO on PCS1x post login.
For empty offload at depot customers need not carry a copy of the delivery order since the empty yards are being onboarded and will be able to access the same electronically.
Customs brokers and importers stand to gain considerably from cost reduction in DO release and DO extension.


October 8, 2019: The Indian Ports Association has revealed that the country's top-12 major ports handled 348.44 million tonnes (MT) in the April-September period of the current financial year, recording a marginal 1.48 percent upswing.
The 12 ports had handled 343.37 MT cargo in the corresponding period of the previous financial year.
IPA attributed the 1.48 percent growth to higher handling of coking coal, fertilisers and iron ore.
The 12 major ports include Deendayal (erstwhile Kandla), Mumbai, JNPT, Mormugao, New Mangalore, Cochin, Chennai, Kamarajar (earlier Ennore), VO Chidambaranar, Visakhapatnam, Paradip and Kolkata (including Haldia).
Containers recorded a growth of 5.61 per cent in terms of TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units).
Figures revealed that Deendayal port handled the highest traffic volume at 61.04 MT during the April-September period, followed by Paradip at 55.55 MT, Visakhapatnam at 34.75, JNPT at 34.41 MT, Kolkata (including Haldia) at 31.64 MT, and Mumbai at 30.10 MT.



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