Streamlined bunkering procedures permit manual wharf filing of shipping bills with mandatory next day regularization and verification. Manual filing of Shipping Bills for bunkering, ship stores, provisions and fresh water is authorised at Ernakulam Wharf Gate subject to written request and an undertaking to regularize all customs formalities at Custom House on the next working day; Preventive Officers must record particulars in a monthly register with 'EW' suffixes, endorse after verifying Master/Chief Mate acknowledgements and survey/bunker delivery reports, and forward documents for examination and endorsements, while failures to regularize attract penal action under the Customs Act.
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Streamlined bunkering procedures permit manual wharf filing of shipping bills with mandatory next day regularization and verification.
Manual filing of Shipping Bills for bunkering, ship stores, provisions and fresh water is authorised at Ernakulam Wharf Gate subject to written request and an undertaking to regularize all customs formalities at Custom House on the next working day; Preventive Officers must record particulars in a monthly register with "EW" suffixes, endorse after verifying Master/Chief Mate acknowledgements and survey/bunker delivery reports, and forward documents for examination and endorsements, while failures to regularize attract penal action under the Customs Act.
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