MUNDRA: Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) will levy a new charge from July 1 for delay in removal of train after completing operations.

The charge has been set at Rs5,000 plus GST per hour, APSEZ said in a trade notice to customers.

“Trains being operated at Adani container terminal rail head are experiencing delay in getting vacated after train operation completion and removal given from our end to the respective container train operator (CTO),” Douglas Charles Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Mundra and Tuna ports, APSEZ, Mundra, wrote in a June 17 trade notice.

The delays are creating a cascading effect on the trains which are waiting to be placed on the tracks. The new charge will be levied to mitigate the delay and speedup the post train operation work, the operator said.

The delay will be calculated after 01 hr of completion of train operation and sending the documents through email.

Idling/delay charges shall be applicable, when the discharge is complete and the confirmed backloading plan is not shared by CTO. The removal shall be given after 1 hour of train discharge completion if backloading plan is not shared, or on arrival of underframe train and 1 hour post placement time and no backloading plan is shared, it added.

The new charge will be billed to the respective Container Train Operator (CTO) and collected by the terminal rail head.