Coast guard in Cebu City seizes P1 million smuggled cigarettes in passenger ship 

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/12/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Enforcers here seized over P1 million worth of smuggled cigarettes inside a passenger ship docked in Pier 1 last February 8. The Philippine Coast Guard in Central Visayas (PCG-7) reported on February 11…

Smuggled cigarettes seized in San Francisco, Cebu

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/15/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Boxes of smuggled cigarettes worth P350,000 were confiscated during an inspection at the Port of San Francisco in Camotes Island, Cebu on Monday, November 14, 2022. The Philippine Coast Guard in Central Visayas…

Smuggled ammunition, sex toy from US intercepted in Cebu port

Morexette Marie B. Erram 09/12/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A smuggled sex toy and more than 100 rounds of ammunition were confiscated in a port in Cebu by Customs officials. The Bureau of Customs in the Port of Cebu (BOC-Port of Cebu)…

P2.1 million in smuggled cigarettes confiscated in Oslob

Morexette Marie B. Erram 08/04/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Hundreds of boxes of smuggled cigarettes worth P2.1 million were confiscated by officers of the Philippine Coast Guard in Central Visayas (PCG-7).  PCG-7, in a statement, said they intercepted a wing van-type truck…

Cebu Customs: P460M smuggled goods confiscated in 2020

Morexette Marie B. Erram 01/15/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Smuggled, misdeclared, undeclared, misclassified and undervalued goods worth a total of P460 million were intercepted at the Port of Cebu for the entire 2020. The Bureau of Customs in Cebu (BOC-Cebu), in a…

Cebu Customs intercepts P4.5M of misdeclared ‘ukay-ukay’

Morexette Marie B. Erram 09/10/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Customs officials in Cebu on Thursday, September 10, intercepted a cargo containing misdeclared used clothes, commonly referred to as ‘ukay-ukay’. The Bureau of Customs in Cebu (BOC – Cebu), in an official statement,…

Customs to auction off 120 vans of imported rice

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/25/2014

  The Bureau of Customs (BOC) will auction 120 container vans of rice on the second week of December. Kenneth Sesante, chief of staff of the BOC Port of Cebu, said the 120 container vans were part…

Gov’t lost P1.3T to smugglers in 9 years

01/14/2014

From 2002 to 2011, the government lost more than P1.33 trillion in revenue due to smuggling through the country’s ports, according to the Federation of Philippine Industries (FPI). In a 20-page study, a copy of which was…

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