To strengthen maritime law enforcement in the country’s vast waters, personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) underwent a week-long maritime drills in the waters off Port Area in Manila recently. PCG personnel manning Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) vessels and BRP Lapu-Lapu...
Hard-earned "balikbayan" boxes from overseas Filipinos workers (OFWs) were finally unloaded from an abandoned container van at the Port of Manila following requests from claimants to finally release their packages. BALIKBAYAN BOXES GALORE--A stripping activity or the unloading of goods from an...
Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS 18) has arrived in Manila for a “routine" port visit, highlighting the strong alliance, military relationship and renewed engagements between the Philippines and the United States. A United States navy man raises the American flag...
Philippine Fisheries Development Authority (PFDA) and Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) have signed a deal for a 15.62-hectares reclamation project that would be part of the development and rehabilitation of Navotas Fish Port Complex (NFPC), the largest fish port in Southeast Asia. (Unsplash)...
Various German medicines believed to have been smuggled into the country were discovered at a storage facility in Pasay City, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) revealed on Wednesday, August 4. UNAUTHORIZED MEDS--Various German medicines believed to have been brought to the Philippines without the...
A second batch of smuggled red onions believed to be a part of an ongoing large-scale agricultural smuggling activity was recently intercepted at the Port of Subic. DEJA VU--Another shipment of onions worth P45 million--declared as chapati bread--were seized at the Port of Subic. (Photo courtesy of...
Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA)-based law enforcement authorities have foiled an attempt to export over P5.1 million worth of "shabu" (methamphetamine hydrochloride) via DHL cargo to three locations abroad. (Photo from BOC) Agents from the Bureau of Customs (BOC) Port of NAIA, together...
A P50-million shipment of smuggled cigarettes from China were recently destroyed in Bukidnon via heavy machinery, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) said Thursday, July 29. CRUSHED!--A total of 85,000 reams of smuggled cigarettes from China worth P50 million were destroyed at a facility in Bukidnon on...
The Bureau of Customs-Port of NAIA (BOC-NAIA) has cleared the 324,090 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines that arrived in the country on Monday night, July 26. (Photo from the BOC) The particular batch of vaccines were flown in at 9:20 p.m. at Ninoy Aquino International...
DAVAO CITY - The local government of Butuan City said Thursday (July 22) that it has submitted its narrative report regarding the docking of the vessel from Indonesia at the Masao Port to the Department of Interior and Local Government. The Albay-bound vessel M/V Claudia docked at the port in...
DAVAO CITY – The city government of Butuan is mulling to file complaints against those responsible for the docking of a vessel from Indonesia at the port of Masao where 12 of 20 crew members tested positive for the dreaded coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In an interview on Wednesday, July...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has implemented strict security measures on the two vessels from Indonesia carrying 11 crew members who tested positive for the coronavirus which are now at the Lidong port in Albay. The PCG said the towing vessel MT Clyde and barge Claudia are now anchored one...
