Through intensified land and maritime surveillance activity, the Bureau of Customs-Port of Davao through Sub-port of Dadiangas and the Naval Forces Eastern Mindanao (NFEM) seized forty (40) boxes of Indonesian made Gudang Baru smuggled cigarettes worth Php 1.9 million on October 24, 2021.
As the Bureau of Customs (BOC) bolsters the nation’s border security measures and trade facilitation, the X-ray Inspection Project (XIP) procured four new units of mobile container x-ray machines to boost the Bureau’s scanning performance.
As part of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) commitment to share best practices and foster coordination with other agencies, the Port of NAIA on October 29, 2021 conducted governance sharing of best practices with the Asia Developmenf Bank (ADB).
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) – Port of Manila (POM) seized one 40-footer container of used jetskis, used motorcycles, and other misdeclared items estimated to be worth Php 3.9 Million on November 2, 2021.
The Bureau of Customs – Port of Subic conducted its 4th Quarter Stakeholders’ Forum on Automated Routing and Monitoring System (ARMS) and Body-Worn Cameras on October 15, 2021, via Zoom Teleconference and Facebook Live Coverage.
Members of the public and private sector gathered in an online business meeting to discuss the investment potentials of Davao Region and Mindanao to become a logistics hub for the ASEAN countries during the 2021 Davao Investment Conference (DavaoIcon) pre-conference “Mindanao as a Logistics Hub of ASEAN, First and Last Mile Logistics” on October 27, 2021 via Zoom Meetings.
On 02 November 2021, the Bureau of Customs (BOC), the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) conducted a successful entrapment operation against Zosimo E. Bello (Bello) and Salvador V. Seletaria (Seletaria), a customs appraiser and examiner at the Collection District No. II-A (Port of Manila), respectively.
On October 28, 2021, the Bureau of Customs – Port of NAIA, headed by District Collector Carmelita M. Talusan, conducted a virtual governance sharing with the Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPOST) headed by Postmaster General Norman Fulgencio, via Zoom Video Conference.
The Bureau of Customs-Port of Clark International Airport turned over, on October 28, 2021, various illegal substance and derivatives with an estimated value of Php 213, 000.00 to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region III.
In line with its commitment to the Performance Governance System (PGS), the Bureau of Customs Port of Cagayan de Oro (BOC-CDO) Office for Strategy Management (OSM) mounted a governance sharing activity together with the Governance and Strategy Management Office (GSMO) of the 4th Infantry Division, Philippine Army on October 28, 2021.
