Government exhorts importers to use direct port delivery facility

NEW DELHI: The government is exhorting importers to use the Direct Port Delivery (DPD) facility, an initiative aimed at reducing dwell time and transaction costs.

The Direct Port Delivery (DPD) is a major initiative of the Centre under programmes like Make in India and Ease of Doing Business and very important drive for reduction of dwell time and transaction cost, the Ministry of Shipping said in a statement today.

It said that experts at a workshop on "Direct Port Delivery at Indian Ports Challenges and Opportunities" organised by the Bureau of Research on Industry & Economic Fundamentals ( BRIEF) stressed on motivating importers to avail this facility.

JNPT port officials said importers have helped it in achieving 8-fold rise in DPD registration in January 2017 alone.

The officials said JNPT, one of the 12 major ports in the country, was giving much stress on support to importers in facilitating this initiative.

To create awareness about this initiative JNPT has been conducting series of events to reach out at all levels of stakeholders, it said.

A report presented by BRIEF on 'Policy Brief on DPD' corroborated the hike in DPD customer base at JNPT and found it very encouraging.