India works with a comprehensive two-tier holiday schedule. As the laytime permitted could be artificially inflated if all these holidays were excluded from laytime, a practice of announcing "Charter Party Holidays" has been in place for several years. BIMCO provides this information in the supplement to the BIMCO Holiday Calendar.
Due to the charter party holidays usually being declared after the release of BIMCO’s Holiday Calendar, the information provided comes as a supplement. The information for the supplement has been kindly provided by our trusted and valuable member, Infinity Shipping Pvt. Ltd.
Please note that this supplement solely contains information on the Indian holidays for use in laytime computing. For more information on holidays on a national, regional, and local level in other countries, non-members will need to purchase the full BIMCO Holiday Calendar.