1. DEFINITIONS – GENERAL

(i)."Coastal vessel" shall mean any vessel exclusively employed in trading between any port or place in India to any other port or place in India having a valid coastal license issued by the competent
authority.

(ii)."Foreign-going vessel" shall mean any vessel other than Coastal vessel.

(iii)."Cold move" shall mean the movement of the vessels without the main engines in operation.

(iv)."Hazardous Chemicals" mean and include the chemicals referred under Schedule I, Schedule II and Schedule III of Manufacture, Storage and import of Hazardous Chemicals Rules, 1989 framed
under Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and Rules, as applicable from time to time.

(v)"Port area" means the custom bound area / Port operational Area of the Port.

(vi)"Normal Container" shall mean general type containers, not falling under special categories mentioned subsequently.

(vii)"Reefer Container" shall mean a refrigerated container used for carriage of perishable goods with provision for electrical supply to maintain the desired temperature.

(viii)"Hazardous Container" shall mean a container containing hazardous goods as classified under IMO.

(ix)"Transshipment Container" shall mean a container, which is discharged from one vessel, stored in the yard and transported through other vessel.

(x)"Over dimensional Container" shall mean a containers carrying over dimensional cargo beyond the normal size of standard containers and needing special devices like slings, shackles, lifting beam
etc. They also include damaged containers and other types which require special devices.

(xi)"Shut out Container" shall mean a container which enters into the port as an export intake for a particular vessel (as indicated by the Vessel Identification Advice Number, i.e. VIA No.) and is not
connected to the particular vessel for reasons whatsoever, then the container is termed to be a shutout container.

(xii)"Back To Town Container" shall mean a container entering the port for export but unable to be exported for whatever reason and taken back to town.

(xiii)"VIAN" means Vessel Identification Advise Number.


1.2. GENERAL TERMS & CONDITIONS

(i).

(a) A foreign going vessel of Indian Flag having a General Trading License can convert to Coastal run on the basis of a Customs Conversion Order.

(b) A foreign going vessel of Foreign Flag can convert to coastal run on the basis of a Coastal Voyage License issued by the Director General of Shipping.

(c) In cases of such conversion, coastal rates shall be chargeable by the load port from the time the vessel starts loading coastal goods.

(d)In cases of such conversion coastal rates shall be chargeable only till the vessel complete coastal cargo discharging operations; immediately thereafter, foreign-going rates shall be chargeable by the discharge ports.

(e)For dedicated Indian coastal vessels having a Coastal License from the Director General of Shipping, no other document will be required to be entitled to Coastal rates.

(ii)

(a) The status of the vessel, as borne out by its certification by the Customs or the Director General of Shipping, shall be the deciding factor for classifying into ‘coastal’ or ‘foreign-going’ category for the
purpose of levying vessel related charges; and, the nature of cargo or its origin will not be of any relevance for this purpose.


(iii).

(a) Vessel related charges shall be levied on Ship-owners/Steamer Agents. Wherever rates have been denominated in US dollar terms the charges shall be recovered in Indian rupees after conversion of US currency to its equivalent Indian rupees at the market buying rate notified by the Reserve Bank of India, State Bank of India or its subsidiary or any other Public Sector Bank as may be specified from time to time. The date of entry of the vessel into the port limit
shall be reckoned with as the day for such conversion.

(b) Container related charges denominated in US dollar terms shall be collected in equivalent Indian rupees based on the market buying rate prevalent on the date of entry of the vessel in case of Import containers; and on the date of arrival of the containers in the port premises in case of export containers.

(iv)
A regular review of exchange rate shall be made once in thirty days from date of arrival of the vessels in cases of vessels staying in the Port for more than thirty days. In such cases the basis of
billing shall change prospectively with reference to the appropriate exchange rate prevailing at the time of review.

(v)
For the purpose of calculating the dues the unit by weight shall be 1 tonne or 1,000 kilograms, the unit by volume measurement shall be 1 cubic meter and the unit by capacity measurement for liquids
in bulk shall be 1,000 liters.

(vi). Interest on delayed payments / refunds:

(a) The user shall pay penal interest on delayed payments under this Scale of Rates. Likewise, the JNPT shall pay penal interest on delayed refunds.

(b) The rate of penal interest will be 13.5%. The penal interest rate will apply to both the JNPT and the port users equally.

(c) The delay in refunds will be counted only 20 days from the date of completion of services or on production of all the documents required from the users, whichever is later.

(d) The delay in payments by the users will be counted only 10 days after the date of raising the bills by the JNPT. This provision shall, however, not apply to the cases where payment is to be made before availing the services / use of Port Trust’s properties as stipulated in the Major Port Trust Act and / or where payment of charges in advance is prescribed as a condition in this Scale of Rates.

(vii). All charges worked out shall be rounded off to the next higher rupee on the grand total of each bill.

(viii). In calculating the gross weight or measurement by volume or capacity of any individual item,fractions upto 0.5 shall be taken as 0.5 unit and fractions of 0.5 and above shall be treated as one unit, except where otherwise specified.