Procedure for Ship Breaking

Import control for ship breaking requires pre-arrival documentation, NOC, boarding, supervised destruction and provisional duty payment.

Import of vessels for breaking up requires pre-arrival submission of ship particulars and a hazardous-waste assessment for desk review by the Port Trust, State Pollution Control Board and Customs; the Superintendent, Preventive (General) must complete review within two working days and may grant or refuse a NOC for anchorage subject to internal review and appeal. After anchorage, Customs-led boarding verifies submissions, quantifies oil and inventories wireless equipment; beaching permission follows on satisfactory verification. Entry inwards permits filing of the Bill of Entry, provisional duty on first-check examination, a stamped undertaking to submit further documents and destroy wireless equipment, and final assessment after supervised destruction leading to cutting permission.