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Dadri ICD: INDER6

INDER6 is the Indian customs code for Dadri ICD. The final character makes it an inland container depot or container freight station, an inland customs point where a consignment is cleared before it travels to the port that ships it.

The port code list records this location as DADRI ICD, in its own words. That is the string a shipping bill and an eBRC filing will show you, so it is the one to recognise on a document even where the place is usually written another way.

How to read the code

Indian port codes follow the UN/LOCODE shape: the two letter country code IN, then a three character location, then one character for the facility type. So INDER6 splits as IN for India, DER for the location, and 6 for the facility, which is why this one is an inland container depot or container freight station, an inland customs point where a consignment is cleared before it travels to the port that ships it.

The suffixes are: 1 sea port, 2 rail, 4 airport, 6 ICD or CFS, and B land customs station. That is why one city can appear several times: the sea terminal and the air cargo terminal are different customs locations and carry different codes.

What the UN/LOCODE register says about DER

The three characters in the middle of INDER6 are a UN/LOCODE location, and the register that assigns them keeps its own record of the place. It lists DER as Dadri ICD/Noida, in ISO 3166-2 subdivision UP, at 28°34′N, 77°33′E. The entry is request under consideration.

That record describes the location, not this terminal. Every code sharing DER points at the same place and differs only in the facility suffix, so the register says the same thing about all of them. Where its name and the port code list’s own string differ, the list is the one your document will show: the register names the place, the list names the customs location you file against.

Where this code is used

A port code identifies where a consignment was cleared, and it travels with the export: it is on the shipping bill, and it is one of the fields carried into an eBRC filing when the remittance is mapped to that shipping bill. Getting it wrong is one of the ways a filing that looks right is refused, in the same family as a wrong purpose code or currency code.

The code is also how the bill is looked up. ICEGATE’s public enquiry takes three inputs and the customs location is the first of them, so checking a bill’s status, LEO and EGM starts with the code on this page. If what you need is the document rather than where it has reached, downloading the copy from ICEGATE is a separate route.

If you are filing against a shipping bill for the first time, the step by step on the DGFT portal shows where these fields land, and the full guide covers what the certificate is doing with them. Shipping bills also carry their own obligation in the RBI ledger, which is what EDPMS closure is about.

INDER6. The Indian customs port code list records this location as DADRI ICD, and the final character 6 marks it as an inland container depot or container freight station, an inland customs point where a consignment is cleared before it travels to the port that ships it.

The port code list records INDER6 as DADRI ICD, in its own words, and that is the string a shipping bill and an eBRC filing will show. It is written more usually as Dadri ICD.

It is the facility type. An Indian port code ends in 1 for a sea port, 2 for rail, 4 for an airport, 6 for an ICD or CFS, and B for a land customs station. INDER6 ends in 6, so it is an inland container depot or container freight station, an inland customs point where a consignment is cleared before it travels to the port that ships it.

The UN/LOCODE register, which assigns the DER part of the code, lists the location as Dadri ICD/Noida, in ISO 3166-2 subdivision UP, at 28°34′N, 77°33′E. That entry is request under consideration, and it describes the place rather than this particular terminal.

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