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The Shipping Ministry is trying to work out a mechanism to regulate the pricing of services provided by agencies such as terminal handling agents and freight forwarders at a port, Shipping Secretary Vishwapati Trivedi said.
Exporters have been complaining that shipping lines simply inform them about change in prices and increase prices. The Ministry had proposed a Shipping Trade Practices Bill a few years ago, which would have taken care of this issue, but the Bill has been put on the backburner.
In this context, the Ministry is evaluating other options to achieve the same end.
“We are exploring if we could define a tariff band for the agencies that provide various services around a port. We have to take a call on which agency will be doing the job — the Ministry, or the tariff regulator, or the ports,” said Trivedi.
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