THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) recently signed a memorandum of agreement designed to help fight smuggling. The agreement…
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Batangas port to slash cargo-handling rates by 14%
PORT operator Asian Terminals, Inc (ATI) will offer a 14% cut in cargo-handling rates in Batangas Port to boost traffic. “We are implementing the…
International Trade Arrangements
LAST Friday, we were invited to speak at the two-day conference of the Supply Chain Management Association of the Philippines (SCMAP) held at EDSA…
Accreditation of Cargo Surveyors
IN a previous column, we wrote about a public consultation conducted by customs two months ago on the accreditation of third party surveyors that…
Non-container business lifts ATI revenues
PORT operator Asian Terminals, Inc. (ATI) reported a consolidated net income of P382 million for the first six months, up 18.8% from P321.4 million…
Transfer of PSB powers to Marina seen this year
THE power to supervise and regulate international sea freight forwarders may be transferred to the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) from the Philippine Shippers’ Bureau…
Resin importation through CBWs restarts today
RESIN importers — under certain conditions — may bring in the commodity through customs bonded warehouses (CBWs) beginning today. “The BOC (Bureau of Customs)…
Conversion to double hull for white oil tankers scheduled for 2011
SINGLE-HULL tankers carrying white oil will be phased out at the start of 2011. This was the agreement between the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina)…
PAL expects savings of $20-30M this year
PHILIPPINE Airlines (PAL), the country’s flag carrier, will implement a fuel-efficiency program to bring in savings of $20-$30 million a year. “Once again, a…
PCG exempts int’l carriers from vessel rules during bad weather
THE Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is excluding international shipping lines from guidelines on vessel movement during inclement weather. “International carriers are excluded from the…
CAO 4-2008A – Revised Rules on Importation of Resin
ABOUT two months ago, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) issued an order disallowing the importation of resin through customs bonded warehouses (CBWs). Customs Memorandum…
BOC Third Party Validators
THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) is finalizing rules which will result in the outsourcing of certain customs functions to the private sector, and which…
Coast Guard, PASG ink deal on anti-oil smuggling
“A large volume of smuggling in the country is done through water and most of this is oil smuggling,” said lawyer Edmund Arugay, PASG…
Unrelenting enhancement of services, commitment to innovation keep U-Ocean ahead of the pack
INTERNATIONAL freight forwarder U-Ocean, Inc is a believer in the adage that “where there’s crisis, there’s opportunity”. So where other companies fret over the…
Aggressive marketing is Wingspeed Shipping’s answer to downturn
WINGSPEED Shipping Corp (WSC) has no plans of slowing down despite the sluggishness in the global economy. In fact, the company will implement even…
Big business opportunity, cost cuts seen in shipping frozen produce
2GO, the logistics arm of the Aboitiz Transport System Corp., sees a P6-billion business opportunity if Mindanao hog growers shift from shipping live cattle…
Macapagal airport gets cargo, passenger allocation under RP-Thai aviation deal
Macapagal airport gets cargo, passenger allocation under RP-Thai aviation deal DIOSDADO Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) in the Clark Freeport is now able to accept…
P65M worth of smuggled goods from China seized
THE Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS) of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) recently apprehended 56 containers of assorted smuggled agricultural products from China…
International flights start at NAIA 3
CEBU Pacific Air’s (CEB) full transfer of all its local and overseas operations to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 (NAIA 3) last…
APL tops 2007 RP-US agri products container trade
AMERICAN President Lines (APL) was the market leader in the Philippine-US agricultural products container trade, lording over the sector in 1997 and again in…
