Detention of imported cargo needs removal of to Customs warehouse - containers need not be detained

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....I am directed to say that the matter of long detention of cargo including containerised cargo at various ports by the Customs authorities leading to port congestion as well as hold up of containers has been represented at various forums. This issue has also come up for discussion in the last Scope Shipping meeting recently held in Bangalore. 2. The matter has been examined by the Board and it is....

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....also desirable. 3. Having regard to the legal necessity of detention of imported cargo and at the same time taking into account the difficulties created by such detention, as detailed above, it has been decided by the Board that long detentions of imported cargo including containerised cargo at the ports is to be avoided by the Customs authorities including Intelligence and enforcement authoriti....