NEW DELHI: The commerce ministry, for the third time, has extended the deadline till March next year for fourteen sea ports — including JNPT, Kandla, Mumbai, Tuticorin and Visakhapatnam — to install radiation monitors and container scanner.
Also, it also said that the ports which fail to meet the deadline will be derecognised for the purpose of import of un-shredded metallic scrap, with effect from April 1 next year.