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DGFT Notifies Additional Ports of Registration under Export Promotion Schemes

AS per Para 4.19 of the HOP:-

Advance Authorisation shall be issued for purpose of import and export through one of sea ports or airports or ICDs or LCS specified below. Authorisation holder shall register authorisation at the port specified in authorisation and thereafter all imports against said authorisation shall be made only through that port, unless the authorisation holder obtains permission from customs authority concerned to import through any other specified port. However, exports may be made through any of the specified ports.

Sea Ports: Mumbai, Kolkata, Cochin, Kakinada, Kandla, Mangalore, Marmagoa, Chennai, Paradeep, Pipavav, Sikka, Tuticorin Vishakhapatnam, Dahej, Nagapattinam, Okha, Mundhra, Surat (Magdalla), Jamnagar, Nhava Sheva, Haldia, Krishnapatnam, Bedi (including Rozi -Jamnagar), Dharamtar, Muldwarka,Porbander, Vadinar.

Air-ports: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Mumbai, Kolkata, Coimbatore Air Cargo Complex, Cochin, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur , Srinagar, Trivandrum, Varanasi, Nagpur, Chennai, Indore, Dabolim (Goa), Lucknow ( Amausi ), Rajasansi (Amritsar).

ICDs: Agra, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Delhi, Faridabad, Guwahati (Amingaon), Guntur, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jallandhar, Kanpur, Ludhiana, Moradabad, Nagpur, Pimpri (Pune), Pitampur (Indore), Surat, Tirupur, Varanasi, Nasik, Rudrapur (Nainital), Dighi (Pune), Vadodara, Daulatabad, (Wanjarwadi and Maliwada), Waluj (Aurangabad), Anaparthy, Salem, Mallanpur, Singanalur, Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur, Ahmedabad, Bhiwadi, Madurai, Bhilwara, Pondicherry, Garhi Harsaru, Bhatinda, Dappar, Dera Bassi, Chheharata (Amritsar), Karur, Miraj, Rewari, Bhusawal, Jamshedpur, Surajpur, Dadri, Tuticorin, Babarpur, Bhadohi, Durgapur (Export Promotion Industrial Park), Kundli, Loni (District Ghaziabad), Mandideep (District Raisen), Raipur, Talegoan (District Pune), Dhannad Rau (District Indore), Kheda (Pithampur, District Dhar), Patli (Gurgaon).

LCS: Ranaghat, Singhabad, Raxaul, Jogbani, Nautanva (Sonauli), Petrapole, Mahadipur, Hilly, Chengrabanda, Dawki, Atari, Ghojadanga, Agartala, Amritsar Rail Cargo, Nepalganj Road, Sutarkhandi.

SEZ: As notified by Central Government, any SEZ can be a specified port for import and export.

Now the DGFT has added the following Ports and ICDs :

Seaports :- Ennore (Tamil Nadu).

ICDs :- Irugur Village (Tamil Nadu), Thudiyalur (Tamil Nadu), Chettipalayam (Tamil Nadu) and Veerapandi (Tamil Nadu).

DGFT Public Notice No. 11 /( RE2010 )/2009-14 Dated : October 11, 2010