Carriers evacuate empty containers at a faster pace

Mar. 19 | Image by Wolfgang Schröpfer from Pixabay Foreign shipping lines are now able to evacuate more empty containers out of the country with yard utilization at Manila international terminals down to ideal levels, Association of International Shipping Lines...

Manifesto zeroes in on transfer of overstaying containers

Mar. 16 | Manila’s international container ports are now transferring Customs-cleared containers overstaying for more than 30 days to inland container depots (ICDs). The transfers, which started on March 16, are part of a manifesto signed on March 15 by several...

BOC chief: Yard utilization at Manila ports now ideal

Mar. 10 | Customs commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero at the Chamber of Customs Brokers, Inc national convention last week Manila’s international container terminals are no longer congested as yard utilization has gone down to ideal levels, according to Customs...

BOC prohibits return of empty containers at Manila ports

Mar. 7 | The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is temporarily disallowing return of empty containers at the Port of Manila (POM) and Manila International Container Port (MICP) to address port congestion. Only empty containers covered by a Special Permit to Load (SPTL) will...

Additional 7,500 empties to be loaded out of MICP on weekends

Mar. 7 | Some shipping lines loading in and out of Manila International Container Port (photo) have agreed to each load out an additional 100 to 1,800 twenty-foot equivalent units every weekend on top of the empty containers they load out on weekdays to resolve...

Temporary relocation of BOC offices announced

Feb. 24 | The Bureau of Customs has announced the temporary relocation of offices affected by the Feb 22 fire at the BOC-Port of Manila (POM) building. The district collector’s office, Formal Entry Division, Informal Entry Division, and Auction and Cargo Disposal...

AISL welcomes BOC order on transfer of empties to Batangas, Subic

Feb. 24 | Starting Feb 25, shipping lines calling Manila South Harbor (in photo) that are part of an alliance may load empty containers from another carrier part of the same alliance. This, according to port operator Asian Terminals Inc (ATI), would allow the terminal...

BOC orders transfer of all empty containers from Manila ports to Subic or Batangas

Feb. 21 | In a bid to address port congestion in the Ports of Manila, the Bureau of Customs has ordered the transfer of all empty containers from Manila ports to either the Port of Batangas (POB) or Subic Bay Freeport (SBFP). Customs commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero...

Industry associations, port operators take steps to solve problem with empty containers in PH

Feb. 19 | The Association of International Shipping Lines (AISL), Alliance of Concerned Truck Owners and Organizations (ACTOO), Container Depot Alliance of the Philippines (CDAP) and International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) have agreed to undertake...

PH ecozone agency pushes full use of Batangas Port

Apr. 26 | It is the best port in the country, was how Philippine Export Zone Authority (PEZA) director general Lilia de Lima described the newly modernized Batangas Port. And yet, the port, two hours south of the capital Manila, is little used. “We are now working...