MARGAO
The Commissioner of Customs, Goa has notified the custom clearance facilities at the Multimodal Logistics Park at Balli dealing with EXIM container traffic with effect from February 3.
Notified as ICD Balli, formalities such as custom clearances, export/import procedures can now be completed at ICD, Balli itself.
The notification implies that once the cargo is cleared at ICD, it does not have to go through customs at the port and is cleared for export. “Therefore, customers will be able to plan their shipment better as the chances of custom related hold-ups at the port will be reduced. It is expected that the availability of custom clearance facilities at ICD, Balli will help customers to reduce overall cost as holdups at ports, port docking etc will be avoided”, informed Konkan Railway Corporation senior officer, Baban Ghatge on Saturday.
In order to support the container traffic from/to Goa, Railways has notified ICD, Balli as Hub on the CCPP (Mangalore) “ JNPT container traffic stream of CONCOR. With this the container traffic originating / terminating from Goa and Mangalore area can be combined, he added.
Considering the present volume of container traffic from Goa to JNPT, the ICD is expected to deal with about 30 container trains per month.
Ghatge have requested the customers to take the advantage of the custom bonded storage warehousing, container stack yard, transportation of containers by rail etc for shipments from/to ICD, Balli.
