The Commerce Ministry has extended the deadline till June 30 for 14 sea ports, including JNPT, Kandla, Mumbai, Tuticorin and Vishakhapatnam, to install radiation portal monitors and container scanners. This is the third time that the deadline has been extended.

The Ministry also said the ports which fail to meet the deadline will be derecognised for the purpose of import of un-shredded metallic scrap, with effect from July 1.

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