Port of Registration

4.19

Advance Authorisation shall be issued for the purpose of import and export through one of sea ports or airports or ICDs or LCS specified below. Authorisation holder shall register Authorisation at the port specified in Authorisation and thereafter all imports against said Authorisation shall be made only through that port, unless the Authorisation holder obtains permission from customs authority concerned to import through any other specified port. However, exports may be made through any of the specified ports.

Sea Ports : Mumbai, Kolkata, Cochin, Kakinada, Kandla, Mangalore, Marmagoa, Chennai, Paradeep, Pipavav, Sikka, Tuticorin Vishakhapatnam, Dahej, Nagapattinam, Okha, Mundhra, Surat (Magdalla), Jamnagar, Nhava Sheva, Haldia, Muldwarka, Porbander, Dharamatar, Vadinar and Krishnapatnam

(In Sea Ports "Krishnapatnam" has been added vide PN. NO. 151/2008, DT. 26/02/2009)

Airports : Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Mumbai, Kolkata Coimbatore Air Cargo Complex, Cochin, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Srinagar, Trivandrum, Varanasi, Nagpur, Chennai, Indore, Dabolim (Goa), Rajasansi (Amritsar) and Lucknow (Amausi).

(Ports : Haldia & Dabolim (Goa) has been added at the end of Seaports & Airports vide PN. NO. 03/2008, DT. 11/04/2008)

ICDs : Agra, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Delhi, Faridabad, Gauhati (Amingaon), Guntur, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jallandhar, Kanpur, Ludhiana, Moradabad, Nagpur, Pimpri (Pune), Pitampur (Indore), Surat, Tirupur, Varanasi, Nasik, Rudrapur (Nainital), Dighi (Pune), Vadodara, Daulatabad (Wanjarwadi and Maliwada), Waluj (Aurangabad), Anaparthy, Salem Mallanpur, Singanalur, Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur, Ahmedabad, Bhiwadi, Madurai, Bhilwara, Pondicherry, Garhi Harsaru, Bhatinda, Dappar, Chheharata (Amritsar), Karur, Miraj, Rewari, Bhusawal, Jamshedpur, Surajpur, Dadri, Tuticorin, Kundli, Bhadohi, Raipur, Mandideep (District Raisen), Durgapur (Export Promotion Industrial Park), Babarpur and Loni (District Ghaziabad).

LCS : Ranaghat , Singhabad , Raxaul, Jogbani, Nautanva (Sonauli), Petrapole, Mahadipur, Hilly, Chengrabanda, Dawki, Atari, Ghojadanga, Nepalganj Road, Agartala, Sutarkhandi and Amritsar Rail Cargo.

SEZ : As notified by Central Government, any SEZ can be a specified port for import and export.

(Some ports are added at the end of Seaports/ Airports/ ICDs/ LCSs vide PN. NO. 34/2008, DT. 27/06/2008)