News / Uncleared import boxes clogging India's ports being used as 'free warehousing'

There seems no end in sight to the congestion choking India’s ports.

According to the Container Shipping Lines Association of India (CSLA), tens of thousands of uncleared import containers are clogging supply chains amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown.

CSLA executive director Sunil Vaswani said only 26,000 teu had been cleared from container freight stations (CFSs) near Mumbai’s Jawaharlal Nehru port, leaving more than 100,000 teu lying uncollected.

“Similarly, about 50,000 teu is lying uncleared at Chennai,” he told The Loadstar. “And other ports, like ...