BOC Davao launches balikbayan box monitoring system

As prescribed under the new Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA), the Bureau of Customs (BOC) Port of Davao has begun implementing a new…

BOC intercepts misdeclared steel pipes valued at P1.5M

Operatives from the Philippine Bureau of Customs Enforcement and Security Service (BOC ESS) seized July 3 a shipment of steel pipes worth P1.5 million…

BOC seizes Mangkono logs for export to Japan

Logs from felled Mangkono trees and misdeclared as flour meal and powder and dried crushed banana have been confiscated by the Bureau of Customs…

BOC seizes bogus smokes worth P65M in Davao City

The Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC) has intercepted an attempt to smuggle some P65 million worth of fake cigarettes and other goods in Davao…

ICTSI net income jumps 22% in first three quarters

Listed Philippine port operator International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) reported double-digit growth in its financials and throughput for the first nine months of…

Poor port condition sinks Davao bid to be ASEAN RoRo link

THE Port of Davao in southern Philippines had been considered as one of the links in the ASEAN RoRo (roll on-roll off) shipping network,…

JICA endorses opening of GenSan-Bitung seafreight link

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has called for the setting up of a sea link dedicated to freight services between General Santos City…

Mandatory Implementation of e-OLRS In Visayas and Mindanao Ports

Philippine Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon recently issued a memorandum reminding all port and sub-port collectors on the strict implementation of the electronic On-Line Release…

ICTSI Davao unit hits 100,000th TEU mark

DAVAO Integrated Port and Stevedoring Services Corp. (DIPSSCOR), a subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services, Inc (ICTSI) and cargo handler at the Sasa Wharf…