India's ministry of shipping has revised its order that various shipping-related charges should be waived at all major ports where material is stranded, until the end of the lockdown period in the country, it announced earlier this week.
The order, issued on Tuesday April 21, called for all penalty charges, demurrages, and detention and anchorage charges, among others, to be cancelled at all major ports until May 3, when the lockdown to combat the Covid-19 pandemic in the country was scheduled to end.Following the national lockdown, imposed on March 25, huge amounts of material has been stranded at ports because there were no drivers or trucks, with internal migrant...