law: Custom Act, 1962 
  7.
  
  Appointment of Customs Ports, Airports, Etc. – 
  The
  
  Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint - (a)
  
  the ports and airports which alone shall be customs ports or customs airports
  
  for the unloading of imported goods and the loading of export goods or any
  
  class of such goods;
  (aa ) the places which alone shall be inland container depots
  
  for the unloading of imported goods and the loading of export goods or any
  
  class of such goods;
  (b)
  
  the places which alone shall be land customs stations for the clearance of
  
  goods imported or to be exported by land or inland water or any class of such
  
  goods;
  (c)
  
  the routes by which alone goods or any class of goods specified in the
  
  notification may pass by land or inland water into or out of India, or to or
  
  from any land customs station from or to any land frontier;
  (d) the ports which alone shall be coastal ports for the carrying on of trade in coastal goods or any class of such goods with all or any specified ports in India.