(Published in Part – III Section 4 of the Gazette of India, Extraordinary)

Tariff Authority for Major Ports

Notification

No.TAMP/85/99-Misc.             -             In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 48 of the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 (38 of 1963), the Tariff Authority for Major Ports hereby Derrick Charges , on packages weighing over 20 tonnes, in the Scale of Rates of all the Major Port Trust, as in the Order appended hereto.  

Case No.TAMP/85/99-Misc.

O R D E R

( Passed on this 10th day of November 99 ) 

                        This Authority had passed an order, in a case pertaining to the Chennai Port Trust (CHPT), on certain matters relating to ‘heavy lift charges’.  There is an opinion that the arrangements stipulated in the said order can usefully be extended for adoption by all the Major Ports.  Having considered and accepted this suggestion, the Authority hereby passes the following orders for common adoption by all Port Trusts (except the Chennai Port Trust):-

(i).        ‘Heavy lift’ shall be defined as any package weighing 20 tonnes and above.

(ii).       Packages weighing upto 20 tonnes shall, consequently, be exempt from levy of heavy lift charges.

(iii).  (A) Whenever packages weighing above 20 tonnes are landed or shipped by the ship’s own gear without the use of the Port Trust’s heavy lift cranes, (heavy lift) charges shall be recovered at 50% of the normal rate.           

        (B). This charge shall not, however, be levied in the following cases:

(a). In cases where the heavy lift is discharged by derricks into or loaded by derricks from barges subject to the barge being released or loaded by the use of the Port’s heavy lift cranes on payment of the normal heavy lift crane charges.

(b). In cases where the heavy lift cranes though requisitioned for landing or shipment of packages weighing above 20 tonnes but could not be spared by the Port for reasons like maintenance, overhaul, repairs, non-availability of the crane because of being hired by another party, etc., as certified by the Port’s Chief Mechanical Engineer and when the heavy lifts have to be landed or shipped necessarily by the use of the ship’s own derricks.

(c). In case of containers, either empty or stuffed with cargo, landed or shipped by the use of the ship’s own derricks.

2.                      All the Major Port Trusts are hereby directed to introduce necessary amendments to their Scale of Rates for incorporating these provisions accordingly.

S.Sathyam, Chairman

[ Advt./III/IV/Exty./143/99]