In national interest, Adani Ports and Logistics will not handle containerised cargo originating from Iran, Paksitan and Afghanistan.
It issued a trade advisory that effective from November 15 it will not handle “EXIM (export-import) containerised cargo originating from Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan”.
The trade advisory will apply to all the terminals operated by APSEZ, including third party terminals at any APSEZ port until further notice.
In September, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized containers with nearly 3,000 kg of heroin from the Mundra port in Gujarat’s Kutch, managed by Adani Ports. Imported from Afghanistan’s Kandahar, the containers were addressed to a trading firm based in Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh and arrived at Mundra from Iran’s Bandar Abbas Port.
One of the country’s largest commercial port operators, Adani Ports and Logistics has a presence across 13 domestic ports in seven States, including Gujarat, Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Odisha.
