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All ports to have EDI by 1998

"The government is committed to implement EDI facilities in the major ports, customs department offices, banks and other players of trade, by next January," Venkataraman said at 'Logistics 97', an international conference and exhibition on logistics management held recently in Madras.

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Observing that EDI is key to effective functioning of the transport system, the minister hoped various statutory clearances required by international traders would be given to them expeditiously by domestic authorities with the help of EDI.

The central government has also embarked on a programme to upgrade existing navigational aids at ports and provide more modern facilities such as the 'vessel traffic management system'.

Sophisticated VTMS systems have already been commissioned at Bombay and Jawaharlal Nehru Port, besides a simpler system at the Calcutta Port, he said.

The government is also planning to provide a 'comprehensive and coordinated' VTMS in the Gulf of Kutch, covering the major port of Kandla and minor ports and naval establishments in the area, the minister added.

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