DELHI – India’s largest port operator has announced to not handle cargofrom Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan from November 15.
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone in a statement on Monday said its“trade advisory will apply to all terminals operated by (Adani Ports) andincluding third party terminals at any (company) port till further notice”.
The firm did not share reasons of abandoning the activity.
“The port has issued it to the concerned stakeholders,” an Adani Groupspokesperson said without giving any other details.
The decision comes weeks after Indian officials confiscated a huge cache –nearly three tonnes – of heroin from a consignment originated fromAfghanistan. The seizure was made at western Gujarat’s Mundra Port, run byAdani Ports.
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In response to the seizures, Adani Ports had said it did not have theauthority to examine the millions of tonnes of cargo handled at itsterminals.
The containers, which were carrying heroin, had been declared assemi-processed talc stones from Afghanistan and had been shipped fromBandar Abbas Port in Iran to Gujarat Mundra port.
