Mangaluru: NMPT gets modern technology mobile x-ray container scanner


Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Dec 18: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customers (CBIC) chairman, Vivek Johri, inaugurated the mobile x-ray container scanner machine equipped with modern technology that has been newly introduced in the container scanner yard of New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT), through virtual forum.

Speaking on the occasion, he said that the customs department has been making efforts to make all the systems simpler and easier towards obstacle-free transactions. He explained that by making the process of checking of the containers simpler, the new container scanner will help to increase cargo handling in the port.

NMPT chairman Dr Venkataramana Akkaraju, members of the central board of indirect taxes and customers, D P Nagendra Kumar, Sangeeta Sharma, Rajiv Talwar, customs Bengauru zone chief commissioner, Mandalika Srinivas and Mangaluru customs commissioner Imamuddin Ahmed, were present.

The new scanner has the capacity to scan 14 containers in an hour. In a year, it can scan 1.6 lac containers. It does not interfere with or harm the things inside. Therefore the trucks can go out of the port faster and reach their destinations without delay.

 

 

 

  

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