Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Goods brought into the Port sheds or premises at the wharves for shipment shall remain in the custody of and at the sole risk and responsibility of the owners, shippers or the agents as the case may be; the Board does not assume any custody of or responsibility for such goods. Goods for shipment shall be received in the sheds or in the open spaces at the wharves, only under the orders of the Traffic Manager. They shall be stored at such places as directed by him and shall under no circumstances be allowed to obstruct the traffic at the wharves. (2) Owners or their representatives intending to ship goods shall fill in the export application in quadruplicate which shall be in the from set out in Appendix 'A' to these regulations (except the columns in which the shipping fees payable are to be entered) and shall sign the same. Such applications shall show full details of the consignments covered by it including the description and quantity of cargo and the weight or measurement or literage of each consignment, as the case may be, according to the unit on which quay dues and stream dues are assessable on the goods. (The weight or measurement shall be shown in the metric system) Where the dues are assessable on the weight basis the gross (and not the net) weight of the consignment shall be shown. Where the consignment comprises heavy lifts that is to say packages each weighing above 1-5 tones) the gross weight of each such heavy lift and its measurement shall be shown in addition. The Export Application thus filled in and accompanied wherever necessary by invoices or such other documents in support of the weights or measurements declared, shall be presented, at the main office counter when the applications shall be checked, the charges assessed and received and the export application endorsed by the Financial Adviser and Chief Accounts Officer in taken of receipt of the charges due thereunder. (3) Goods for shipments shall not be admitted into the Board's transit sheds or premises at the wharves unless the shipper of the goods produce at the shed the triplicate copy of the export application referred to above. These goods shall not be loaded on board any vessel at the wharf berths or into any lighters for shipment by any vessel in the Port, unless- (a) the customs export shipping bill with the "let export" order from or the Reshipment application duly passed by the Customs Department has been produced: and (b) the shipper of the goods produces the necessary receipt for the other charges that may be due to the Board on the said goods. The Traffic Manager may, however, allow the shipment of goods in special case (where the parties have deposit accounts with the Port) in anticipation of the actual debit being raised towards the aforesaid charges due to the Board, provided the parties concerned guarantee payment of the charges and give it in writing that the charges may be debited to their deposit account/s. (4) Subject to the conditions stated in regulation 77 the Board will provide labour for the handling of all such export goods (excluding items which are not handled by the Port and mentioned in the Port's Schedule of Rates) from the place of storage to the slings, or derricks or cranes for shipment by the vessel concerned, but the shippers shall made their own arrangements for keeping an account of cargo so shipped and obtain the necessary mate's receipts therefor.