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Date: 30/04/2024

Vessel related charges at JNPA to increase from Sept. 1 
 
The Tariff Authority for Major Ports vide its order dated 1st June 2020 revised the scale of rates of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) (formerly known as Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust) vide Gazette Notification No. 251 dated 03rd July 2020 and provided for 19.03% increase in Vessel Related Charges (VRC), but JNPA hadn’t increased the tariff of VRC till date. Now, it has been approved by the Competent Authority of JNPA to increase the Vessel Related Charges by 5% from the existing rates applicable. The details of revised Scale of Rates of Vessel Related Charges are available on the JNPA website.
 
The increase in tariff will be effective from 01st September 2024, informed a JNPA Trade Notice.
 
Since the revised rates will come into effect from midnight of 31st August 2024, all vessels which are berthed up to midnight of 31st August 2024 shall attract Port Dues and Pilotage at old rates.  For berth hire beyond midnight of 31st August 2024, new rates will apply since it is on hourly basis. In case a vessel arrives on 29th or 30th August 2024 and stays beyond 31st August 2024, berth hire for actual number of hours up to midnight of 31st August 2024 will be levied at old rates and thereafter new rates. While sailing out after midnight of 31st August 2024, Pilotage charges will be applicable at new rates, the communique added.
 
source: Exim News Service: Navi Mumbai, April 29