The Bureau of Customs has reassigned 66 of its personnel to various offices as part of the major reshuffle of the organization.
In several Customs personnel orders signed by Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III, the 66 personnel included district collectors of ports that failed to meet their March revenue target.
Lawyer Erastus Sandino B. Austria, former district collector of Port of Davao, officially assumed as new district collector of Port of Manila replacing lawyer Vener S. Baquiran. Baquiran has been transferred to the Compliance Monitoring Unit (CMU).
Export Coordination Division chief lawyer Romalino G. Valdez of the Assessment and Operations Coordinating Group will fill in the vacated position of Austria as district collector of Port of Davao.
Maritess T. Martin is now the new district collector of Manila International Container Port (MICP). Martin was replaced by lawyer Lilibeth S. Sandag of Revenue Collection Monitoring Group (RCMG) to head Port of Clark.
Former MICP district collector lawyer Balmyrson M. Valdez has been given new designation to head the Legal Service of the RCMG while lawyer Yasser Ismail Abbas is now the director of Financial Service, RCMG.
Aside from Austria and Martin, Wivina B. Pumatong of sub-port of Mactan assumed as the district collector of Port of Iloilo. Pumatong replaced John Simon who has been transferred to the Planning and Policy Research Division.
“I have given Austria and Martin bigger responsibilities to head the major ports since they are consistently hitting their targets with huge surpluses since I assumed as Commissioner,” Customs chief Isidro Lapeña said.
It may be recalled that the two major ports, POM and MICP, collected only P5.776 billion and P12.625 billion, 14.9 percent and 9.28 percent lower than their targets, respectively.
Lapeña said the district collectors of Port of Zamboanga (Atty. Lyceo C. Martinez) and Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Carmelita Talusan), ports that did not met their targets in March, will not be affected by the recent reshuffling since they assumed office only in mid-March.
“Their revenue performance in April will determine whether they will stay in their position as district collector,” Lapeña noted.
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