LCS Karimganj Steamerghat: INKGJB
INKGJB is the Indian customs code for LCS Karimganj Steamerghat. The final character makes it a land customs station on a land border, used for overland trade with a neighbouring country.
The port code list records this location as LCS Karimganj Steamerghat, 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 INKGJB splits as IN for India, KGJ for the location, and B for the facility, which is why this one is a land customs station on a land border, used for overland trade with a neighbouring country.
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.
Other codes at KGJ
The same location prefix carries one other code. If a document names a facility type different from the one you expected, it is usually one of these rather than a mistake.
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.