MUMBAI PORT TRUST 

SCALE OF RATES CHARGED AT THE BUNDERS

 Approved by the Board Trustees of the Port of Mumbai

AND SANCTIONED BY THE TARIFF AUTHORITY FOR MAJOR PORTS UNDER SECTIONS 48 & 49 OF THE MAJOR PORT TRUSTS ACT, 1963 (AMENDED) AND PORT LAWS AMENDMENT ACT, 1997.

 (Revised upto 11^th September 2002)  

  *SECTION - I

LICENSE FEES 

(A)       License Fees will be levied on vessels registered and vessels using Bunders as under :- 

 NOTES  : 

(1)                Licence fees on annual basis shall be 8 times the rates prescribed as above. 

(2)                Vessels using the Port Trust Bunders for the purpose of working cargo, undergoing survey, repairing or idling, shall pay the licence fees as prescribed at `A’ above at the Mb.P.T. Cash Collection Centre and obtain an endorsement on the Licence Book.  However, the vessels occupying the wharf / Hard for repairs on its keel or jacked up on the wharf / hard for changing side plates etc. or being constructed will attract charges under section III (ii). 

(3)                Vessels must always carry with them the Licence Book which shall be presented for inspection whenever so demanded by Mb.P.T. officials authorised for such inspection. 

(4)                Default in adherence to the provisions contained in Notes (1) to (3) above shall render the vessels being distrained or arrested and sold in accordance with the provisions contained in the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 (Act No.38 of 1963) or the Indian Port Act, 1908 (Act No.15 of 1908) and Regulations that  may be prescribed thereunder. 

(5)                Payment of charges under this section shall not entitle a vessel to take up or retain any particular position, in a basin, alongside a wharf or the approach there to, a Hard, Flat or Wharf or any other portions of the Bunder premises.
 

(6)                Annual licence fees will not be levied on the following craft provided they do not ply for hire :- 

Customs, Water Police, the Central or any Provincial Government and Surveyors.  Also fenders and launches of Shipping Companies employed in connection with the inspection of crew and landing or embarking passengers from their own vessels. 

(7)                Monthly licence fee shall be charged from the date of registration of the boat/trawler at the Bunder, valid for one month thereafter. 

(8)                Vessels opting to pay Licence Fees on monthly basis shall pay the fees immediately on their arrival at the Bunders and shall not leave the bunders without payment of the fees due from them.  Default in adherence to this provision shall render recovery of interest from the owners at the rate prescribed by the Board from time to time. 

*(9)      All other vessels/crafts whose  movements in the harbour monitored by Port Deptt., should pay the License fees for water conveyance as per the Port of Mumbai Pilotage, Tug Assistance, Towage, Mooring and other services fees Order (PSR) and no charges as levied by the Bunders office (MLF) are required to be paid by them.

 (B)              Licence Fees on users and ancillary trade at New Fish Jetty and New Sassoon Fish Harbour and Old Sassoon Dock. 

 NOTES  : 

(1)                Only valid licence holders shall be allowed to carry out above activity. 

(2)                The licences shall be renewed on annual basis. 

(3)                Registered Fishermen’s Co-operative societies will be granted rebate of 50% in the above licence fees.                                                                                                 

* TAMP’s sanction vide its order No.TAMP/37/2001-Mb.P.T. of 11.3.2002 and published in the Gazette of India Extra Ordinary (Part III Section 4) on 15.03.2002 vide Gazette No.48.

# SECTION -II 

WHARFAGE AND DEMURRAGE CHARGES 

A.  WHARFAGE :  

       On cargo handled at Hay Bunder, Haji Bunder, Malet Bunder  and New Ferry Wharf (except Fish Jetty) and such other Bunders as may be notified separately, wharfage will be recovered as under :- 

 B.     DEMURRAGE : 

(i)                  On cargo handled at Hay Bunder, Malet Bunder, Haji Bunder and New Ferry wharf (except Fish Jetty) or such other Bunders as may be notified separately, demurrage shall be charged as follows : 

 (ii)                No demurrage shall be recovered on cargo landed at other Bunders.  Cargo landed at other Bunders, however, shall be removed from wharf on the day of landing either by direct delivery or by shifting to importers’ premises.  The export cargo shall be allowed to be kept on wharf on the day of shipment.

 NOTES : 

(1)                The Board is under no liability whatsoever in respect of any such goods landed at or brought for shipment from the Bunders and/or otherwise being on its premises and may move them at the risk and cost of the owner, consignee or shipper without incurring any liability and without prejudice to their right to recover the charges due. 

(2)                Bunder limit means such portion of the wharves and land adjoining the wharves set aside for goods in transit.  A wharf may extend to 15.25 metres measured from the wharf front.  

(3)                Any consignee or shipper or his agent found shipping or removing cargo from any of the Trustees’ Bunders without first paying the wharfage and any other charges due shall be liable to pay double the charges laid down for the same in the Scale of Rates charged at the Bunders. 

(4)                Wharfage will be assessed on the gross weight of the goods as shown in the invoices and specifications together with Customs documents and Import and Export Applications.  Gross Weight, if not in exact multiple of 100 kgs. will be rounded off to the next higher multiple of 100 kgs. for levy of the charges. 

GENERAL RULES TO SECTION II 

(1)                The charges under the Scale of Rates as above will not be leviable on goods stored at the

Bunders and removed thereto under the provision of Docks Bye Law No. 53. 

(2)                The Board of Trustees do not provide labour at the Bunder for the landing, Shipping or removal of goods. All goods lying at the Bunders remain there at the risk of the Consignee or Shippers and are in their charge. 

(3)                Charges on containers and containerised cargo shall be assessed in accordance with the Scale of Rates charged at the Docks. 

(4)                The minimum charge recovered in any Application-cum-Bill or Bill should not be less than Ten Rupees.                                                                                                                         

# Sanctioned vide TR No.147 of 26.05.1998, TAMP’s sanction vide its order No. TAMP/2/98-Mb.P.T. dated 19.07.2000 and published in the Gazette of India, Extra –ordinary (Part III Section 4) dtd. 28.08.2000 effective from 27.09.2000.

*SECTION III 

CHARGES FOR SHIP-BREAKING, CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR

IN THE PORT TRUST BUNDERS 

#(I)      In respect of vessels being broken up on the Port Trust hards the charges will be recovered from the date of beaching as under :- 

(i)                  Rs. 3.30 per day per LDT for the period from date of beaching to the date  preceding the date of commencement of breaking. 

(ii)                Rs. 5 per LDT per day for the regulated period of the vessel. The regulated period shall be one month per 600 LDT. 

(iii)               If the vessel continues breaking beyond the regulated period as at (ii) above, charges for the extended period shall be Rs.10 per LDT per day for one month for vessels upto 3000 LDT and for two months for the vessels above 3000 LDT. 

(iv)              Rs. 20 per LDT per day for the period beyond the period of extensions as at (iii) above. 

            NOTES :- 

(1)                Charges mentioned above shall be recovered on the total LDT of the vessel for the entire period of occupation 

(2)                The month for the purpose of regulation shall be reckoned from the date of commencement of breaking to the preceding date in the following month e.g. 10^th April to 9^th of May. 

(3)                The initial regulated period is determined considering 600 LDT or part thereof per month e.g.  

        **(4)        Vessels  which  are  completely  broken  and  removed  prior  to  the  expiry  of  the  regulated period will be granted a rebate in the form of part of the charges recovered under (2)  above. The percentage of rebate shall be worked out as under:- 

Regulated period, in days - No. of days actually taken

                        Regulated period, in days.

The rebate as worked out above will be subject to a ceiling as under depending upon the size of the ship. 

*          For the vessels already beached at the Ship Breaking Yard prior to 12.09.2002, the rebate will be worked out as above. 

(I)                 Vessels including boats, tonics, hodies, rafts pontoons, tank barges, dumb barges and other craft being constructed or fitted out in the Port Trust or any where on wharf will be charged Rs. 3 per day per GRT from the date of occupation of the hard for the purpose of construction/repairing.  

NOTES :-  

1.                   Normally ship-breaking will be allowed only of PT vessels and the wreck removed from the   Harbour and other vessels certified by the Deputy Conservator “NOT FIT FOR” going out of Mumbai for risk factors. No vessel shall be broken up in any PT basin/hard without the prior specific permission of the Board. 

2.                   A vessel shall be deemed to be on a hard when she has been beached in a position approved by the Deputy Conservator alongside or as near as possible to the Bunder pursuant to the application made by the Owner of the vessel for the purpose. 

3.                   Failure to make payment to MBPT charges shall be deemed to be a default and the Board reserves the right to arrest the vessel or the unbroken part of it and take over the broken up material of the vessel if any, lying in MBPT premises.  The vessel/unbroken part of the vessel and all other material so arrested and taken over shall be disposed of by the Board in accordance with the provisions of the MBPT Act, 1963.  The sale proceeds will be first utilised to cover MBPT charges, including expenses of sale and disposal methods employed.  Deficit, if any, will be recoverable from the Ship-breaker.  Surplus, if any, will be paid to the Ship-breaker as per the rules. 

4.                   Charges for construction of vessels will be recovered on the GRT of the vessel as certified by the Mercantile Marine Department for which purpose the requisite certificate of registration shall be produced for the inspection of the MBPT within one month from the completion of construction and the launching of the vessel. In case of such crafts as are not registered with any statutory authority, the charges will be levied on the contractual dead weight tonnage. 

5.                   All charges for ship-breaking shall be payable in advance initially for a period of three months. If the work is not completed within three months, the further charges shall be payable in advance for every month till completion. 

6.                   A vessel launched from the hard and lying in the adjoining Bunder basin for fitting out or any other purpose will be charged licence fees at Rs. 10 per GRT per day and in the case of unregistered craft on the DWT. 

7.                   No vessel  shall be constructed or assembled or fitted out (repaired) on a PT hard without the prior permission of the Manger, MBPT Docks, permission for which shall be granted only after a deposit equivalent to three months charges calculated on the contractual DWT of the vessel has been collected from an intending party and which deposit shall be refunded to the party on completion of the construction of the vessel and submission of certificate as mentioned at Note (4) above. 

8.                   Charges due on construction of a vessel shall be paid at a regular monthly intervals based on contractual DWT of the vessel and all charges due on the construction shall be paid before the removal of the vessel from the basin or the hard. Default in making payment of charges due, shall render all charges being recovered at twice the rate prescribed.

 *   Sanctioned vide TR No. 105 dated 16.04.96 published in Maharashtra GDV. Gazette dated  10^th July 1996 effective from 01.08.96. 

** Sanctioned vide TR No. 92 dt. 13.04.99 published in Maharashtra Govt Gazette dated 29.07.99, effective from  29.07.99-(in supersession of TR No. 339 dated 26.11.96 published in Maharashtra Govt. Gazette dated 03.04.97 effective from 03.04.97)

# Sanctioned vide TAMP order dated 12.08.2002 published in the Gazette of India Extra Ordinary (PART III SEC. IV) of 28.08.2002 vide Gazette No. 173 and effective from 12.09.2002.