On August 18, 2025, Bazargan Transport Act received 2025 President’s consent and replacing the Transportation Act of 1958 after nearly seven decades ..
The Bazargan Transport Bill was passed by both parliamentary parliament – Lok Sabha on August 6, 2025 and Rajya Sabha on August 11, 2025 and paved the way for the president’s consent.
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This is one of the most important repairs of the Indian Maritime Regulatory Framework in recent history and coordinates the internal transport law with contemporary global standards and practices.
Why was a new action needed
The law served India for decades in 1958, but was produced in a very different business environment. At that time:
- Containerization was in the early stages
- Digital records were unprecedented
- The standards of adaptation, safety and sustainability were less strict in the world
Rapid forward to 2025, India is a global maritime power with the aim of renovating laws to meet international standards, attracting investment and creating resistance to commercial operations.
The 2025 law deals with the simplification of the sovereignty, coordinating with international conventions, and introducing reforms for more competitive Indian transportation.
Corrections and key changes
Some of the main changes presented in law 2025 include:
- Marine Safety and Environmental Standards: Updates to align with IMO Conventions, with more accurate observance of contamination, ship recycling and carbon efficiency ..
- Maritime Welfare: Advanced Regulations for Education, Certificate and Social Security for Indian Maritime ..
- Coastal and Internal Transportation: A clearer legal framework for promoting domestic coastal trade and integrating multiplicity ..
- Maritime Development Fund: Creating financial mechanisms to support ships, innovations and infrastructure ..
- Transportation Digitalization: Recognizing Electronic Records under this Act, opening the path of digital documents and e -government ..
Transparency of Shipment Cost – First time for India
One of the interesting rules of paragraph 317 ..
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This allows the central government to require services or offers to the Indian or coastal ships by informing Specify all costs in the Loading Bill or Transportation Document.. ..
• These costs should include fixed and conditional elements.
• Later cannot be paid for additional fees that have not been specified.
• Violations can attract maximum Inr 5 Lakh penalties.
After informing, it can have a major impact on coastal and domestic cargoes, improving transparency for exporters, importers and suppliers of procurement that are often faced with “hidden” or unpredictable costs.
This does not mean that all coastal bills must be transported now, but it determines the stage for the government to impose this condition when it is appropriate.
Electronic records – Does this mean electronic load (EBL).
The law also contains the clause “Use and maintenance of electronic records”, which states that any record, registration, return or document under this law may be issued or maintained electronically, subject to the guarantees and conditions prescribed by the government.
This is an important step because it opens the legal door for the electronic bills (EBL) in India.
- The law provides a capable framework, but the central government must issue specific notifications and rules to operate EBLs. Until then, the parties cannot trust EBL only by Indian law.
- This approach coordinates India conceptually with the UNCitral model law on electronic transmission records and global digital trade standards, but this implementation is still dependent on government actions.
In other words, India has taken legal measures to support EBL approval, but the full green light will only come after the issuance of accurate standards and notifications.
India’s MullTer trip – Still in Step 2
It is worth noting that while the Bazargan Transport Act, 2025 shows an important progress, India is officially in the 2rs of Multr’s approval by Multr’s tracker.
This means that the country has created an active legal environment by recognizing electronic records, but it has not yet fully operationalized electronic documents such as EBL under a binding and applicable legal framework.
Other economies such as Singapore, Britain, and France have recently moved to adoption or coordination with Mlett, while India’s progress intends to score, but is awaiting supervision.
For jobs, this is an important distinction: there is a legal foundation, but the practical use of EBL in commercial finance, customs and banking transactions become reality only as soon as the rules and standards are informed.
Its meaning for Indian trade and trade
For Indian businessmen and businessmen, the Transportation Act of 2025 has different consequences:
- More predicted in costsA: If not informed of paragraph 317, jobs can budget shipping and auxiliary costs, reducing invoice disputes, and improving cash flow planning for domestic trade.
- Faster digital acceptance: Recognizing electronic records, the field for digital loading bills, electronic certificates and ultimately commercial corridors have become completely digital.
- Increase competitionA: With world standards with better coordination, Indian transport companies may make merge with international supply chains.
- Improved sailing condition: Indian sailors, which make up a large part of the global labor force, benefit from the provisions of welfare, training and issuing stronger certificates.
- Adaptation and accountability: More strict regulations on safety, environment and transparency means that jobs need to strengthen the mechanisms of adaptive.
A preparatory step of the future, with the implementation of the waiting
The Bazargan Transportation Act, 2025, is a prominent reform that modernizes the maritime sector of India and represents India as a serious actor in global transport and trade.
However, it is as important as to keep in mind that many of its influential regulations – from transparency of transportation costs to digital loading bills – require government notifications.
Until these cases are issued, this law shows more than an urgent transformation promise to change.
For jobs, the message is clear: Start preparing for a more transparent, digital and international maritime regime.
The sooner the companies adapt to their systems and processes, the softer the transfer of these regulations.
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