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Ministry of Shipping has extended its hand to support situation arising due to COVID pandemic, ports have allowed free storage times during the lockdown period, where annual lease rentals or license fees on a pro-rata shall be deferred without nay interest. No penalty charges, demurrages, detention charges, dwell time charges, anchorage charges, berth hire charges, and performance-related penalties are to be levied on any port for the delay in berthing, loading/unloading operations or evacuation or arrival of cargo during the lockdown and another 30 days of the recovery period.

Situation due to pandemic is challenging this year for solar industry, workers are not available to transport the material and its repercussions are experiences across various continents and countries. Such small help from departments will help to revive in challenging times and will again evolve to establish a benchmark in the industry.