Government eases wheat export rules for trucks stuck at ports

In an interview with CNBC-TV18, Santosh Kumar Sarangi, Director General of Foreign Trade, said government has taken a number of measure to decongest the situation at ports.

“We have taken a number of measures to decongest the situation at ports. We have allowed some relaxations where in if the wheat has been produced before the customs and registered with them before May 13, we have allowed them to be loaded onto the vessel. Apart from that, on the basis of the Egyptian government’s request we have allowed a partially loaded vessel to be fully loaded. We are also considering couple of more requests wherein the partial loading of vessels had started before May 13. So once all this is done, we expect substantial easing in Kandla port.”