Port of Registration

4.19

The licence and the Advance Licence shall be issued for the purpose of import and export through one of the sea ports or airports or ICDs or LCS specified below. The licence holder shall register the licence, the port specified in the licence and thereafter all imports against the said licence shall be made only through that port, unless he obtains permission from the 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, Nhavasheva, Paradeep, Pipavav, Sikka, Tuticorin Vishakhapatnam, Dahej, Nagapattinam, Okha, Mundhra , Surat (Magdalla) and Jamnagar
Air-ports	Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar Mumbai, Kolkata Coimbatore Air Cargo Complex, Cochin, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Srinagar, Trivandrum, Varanasi, Nagpur and Chennai.
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 and Rewari, Bhusawal, Jamshedpur, Surajpur and Dadri.
LCS	Ranaghat , Singhabad , Raxaul, Jogbani, Nautanva ( Sonauli), Petrapole and Mahadipur

(Bold ICDs in above table has been added vide PN No. 57/2004, DT. 23/02/2005)

The following ports would be treated as a single port for the purposes of imports and exports:

i Mumbai seaport, Nhava Sheva & Mumbai Airport

ii Delhi airport and ICDs in Delhi

iii Kolkata seaport, Kolkata airport

iv Chennai airport and Chennai seaport

v Bangalore airport and Bangalore ICD

vi Hyderabad Airport and Hyderabad ICD

[Deleted - Export shipments under the Advance Licensing Scheme can be effected from any of the SEZs.

(Amended vide PN NO. 55/2004-09, DT. 18/02/2005)

[OLD The following SEZs shall also be one of the specified ports for import and export under this paragraph:

SEZ Santacruz, Kandla, Kochi, Vishakhapatnam, Chennai, FALTA, Surat, NOIDA ]]

(Above paragraph has been added vide PN NO. 52/2004, DT. 11/02/2005)

Any SEZ notified by the Central Government shall also be one of the specified ports for import and export under this paragraph

(Above sentence is added vide PN No. 57/2004, DT. 23/02/2005)