Port codes  /  ICD or CFS

MIDC Pune: INPUM6

INPUM6 is the Indian customs code for MIDC Pune. 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 MIDC PUNE, 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 INPUM6 splits as IN for India, PUM 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.

Pune has more than one customs location

The port code list places 6 codes at Pune. Every Pune port code puts them in one table, which is the quickest way to tell whether the code on your document is the one you meant.

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.

INPUM6. The Indian customs port code list records this location as MIDC PUNE, 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 INPUM6 as MIDC PUNE, in its own words, and that is the string a shipping bill and an eBRC filing will show. It is written more usually as MIDC Pune.

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. INPUM6 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.

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