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The Shipping Ministry cleared a package to ease the burden on port users, public-private-partnership (PPP) operators and shipping lines caused by the lockdown restrictions. Major port trusts such as Cochin, Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, Goa, and Visakhapatnam have the lowest operating profit or are running at a loss.

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With oil prices dropping to less than $20 per barrel, ocean carriers are under pressure to cancel their bunker surcharges and imply negative bunker adjustment factors (BAFs). But the shippers complain that the lines are still charging BAFs – and IMO 2020 low-sulphur surcharges.

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The COVID-19 outbreak is adversely affecting the domestic logistics sector, especially road transportation. The immediate impact on the logistic sector has been a sharp fall in freight availability. This is due to restrictions on the production of non-essential goods and shortage of fleet for movement of goods owing to the shortage of drivers and increased truck rentals

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West Asian nations led by Iran have also placed orders for basmati rice, but traders are likely to miss the crucial Ramzan period as it takes 40-45 days to ship the consignments. Iran, China and Russia have placed fresh orders for Indian black tea during the COVID-19 outbreak, a boost for the domestic industry which has incurred losses of about 100 million kg of teas owing to the lockdown.

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The commerce ministry reduced the import quota for green peas to 75,000 tonnes for 2020-21 and has laid down a procedure for its inbound shipments. According to the DGFT, there is no quota for import of yellow peas for the current fiscal. It said the import would be allowed only to the millers/refiners.

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Around 85% of the truck drivers have gone missing. Dwindling remuneration in a lock-down economy, fear of catching the virus and the police high-handedness are some of the reasons for this. The country’s economy will be in crisis if the trucks don’t move and cause a shortage of essential and non-essential goods

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In the next 6 weeks, APL shipping company will only serve transpacific and US-flag services. CMA CGM, which bought APL 4 years ago will stop using it for trades covering the Indian sub-continent, Middle-East and Latin America.

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The government has approved the reconstitution of the National Shipping Board to be headed by former Director-General of Shipping Malini Shankar. NSB is the highest advisory body on matters related to Indian shipping.

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A controversy has erupted on waiver of all penal charges for container detention, demurrage and storage payable on import or export by CFS, ICDs and shipping lines due to Covid-19 pandemic. If it’s not sorted out quickly, a major showdown could be caused between the EXIM and CFS operators.

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