Asof 4pm Sept 25, 2014 , Cebu boxes is 80% delivered... 29 days lang since ma load/dispatched from LAX..parang MManila ang bilis...
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Cebu Landing
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Yay! The eagle has landed (so to speak)!!!
The first Cebu shipment of the West Coast arrived on September 19, 2014 as scheduled. No delays! It was released from Customs after two days on September 23.
Erwin and company are in Cebu seeing to the unloading of the container and the dispatch to other destinations in VisMin. Boxes bound for Iloilo, Bacolod, Davao, Tacloban, CDO will be shipped via a 10‐footer immediately after unloading. Other destinations like Zamboanga and Surigao will be shipped via loose cargo. It goes without saying that Cebu and Bohol boxes will be delivered after a day or two. Metro Manila and Luzon boxes will be shipped the following day.
For updated information, please call your local Forex Cargo office.:
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For more inquiries, call our Forex Cargo Office hotline at 904-458-SHIP (904-458-7447) or (904) 272-7466.
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Manila vice mayor defends truck ban
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MANILA, Philippines - Manila Vice Mayor Isko Moreno renewed yesterday his defense of the city government’s truck ban, scored by businessmen and some officials for disrupting commerce and worsening Metro Manila’s traffic problem.
“We want to address port congestion… We get the blame for the heavy traffic on C-5 Road, when it is not within (the jurisdiction of) Manila. We get blamed for the traffic even in Katipunan,” Moreno, whose real name is Francisco Domagoso, said during a Senate hearing on port congestion.
Manila port logjam fans inflation as output ebbs
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CONTAINERS with goods from garlic to microchips are piling up at the main ports in the Philippines six months after a truck ban took effect, causing a supply logjam that’s fanned inflation and may impair output.
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| A file photo of cargo vessel at a port in Manila. Manila’s ports account for about a third of the country’s inbound and outbound cargo, according to official data. |
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Manila port congestion? Move to Subic, Batangas
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Behind every crisis is opportunity. The economic drop that Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada caused by his citywide daytime truck ban in time could perk up the entire Mega Manila. That is, if national officials get their act together.
The truck ban was long due. For decades, dump and cargo trucks and container trailers have been wrecking city streets, clogging traffic, and dirtying the air. City hall derived no income from the haulers, while its road repair, traffic control, and public health bills mounted. Last Feb. Estrada forbade big vehicles from using his streets from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
PASA explains delays in balikbayan box deliveries
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LOS
ANGELES – In recent weeks, the delivery of balikbayan boxes to the Philippines
has been encountering long delays, prompting the Pilipino American Shippers
Association to reach out to tens of thousands of customers to explain the
delays.
Joel
P. Longares, one of the founders of PASA, an organization of balikbayan box
forwarders in the United States, said the delivery of balikbayan boxes are
experiencing from three to six week delays because of at least three reasons.
The
first, Longares said, is the mandatory physical inspection of all balikbayan
boxes by the Department of Homeland Security in the Ports of Los Angeles and
Long Beach and other ports in the US. He said before the inspection was random
with only those that show signs of suspicious cargo during the X-ray screening
sent for physical inspection.
Friday, July 18, 2014
Delays in the delivery of Balikbayan Boxes
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Date: July 9, 2014
Subject: Delays in the delivery of Balikbayan Boxes
To: All our dear and valued Forex Cargo customers:
FOREX CARGO has time and again remains committed to provide the most efficient delivery services to our customers. This is how this company was established, and will continue to do so. However, in the recent months, factors beyond our control have been pushing our delivery schedule longer than usual.
First factor is the delay at the loading port of Long Beach/Los Angeles. Most of you by now, have either heard of or have already experienced delays in your previous shipments, due to the Examination Holds conducted by the US Customs and Border Protection. This examination, on the average adds two weeks to our delivery schedule. Not only does it delay the departure of the shipment, it likewise costs FOREX an average of $2500 per container, which we have been shouldering and never passed on to our agents nor to our customers.
The second and the bigger factor is the delay at the destination Port of Manila. As you are all aware of, Mayor Joseph Estrada enacted a truck ban on February 24, 2014 as a traffic-control measure within the city limits of Manila. “Eight-wheeled trucks and vehicles weighing more than 4,500 kilograms (10,000 pounds) are prohibited from Manila roads from 5:00 am to 10:00 am and 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm, Monday to Saturday.” (Bloomberg – May 12, 2014).
Thursday, July 17, 2014
The problems with Manila and Jakarta ports
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The port infrastructure in Southeast Asia is not evenly developed and this will be a problem if the much vaunted Asean Economic Community (AEC) is to come into effect by next year as planned.
The two worst affected ports among the major Asean nations are the Port of Manila in the Philippines and Indonesia’s main gateway, the Port of Tanjung Priok in Jakarta.
The two worst affected ports among the major Asean nations are the Port of Manila in the Philippines and Indonesia’s main gateway, the Port of Tanjung Priok in Jakarta.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
PPA sees normalization of Manila ports
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MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) expects operations at the Ports of Manila to normalize within the next four weeks as the government continues to pursue measures to resolve the congestion caused by the imposition of a day-time truck ban by the city government of Manila last February.
PPA general manager Juan Sta. Ana said in an interview with reporters that congestion at the Ports of Manila worsened due to the decision of the Manila City government to impose a day-time truck ban.
Friday, July 11, 2014
Economists see slower export growth in H2
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MANILA -- The truck ban imposed in the city of Manila and a slowing world economy will likely dampen the country’s exports growth in the second half of 2014, thus, diminishing the export sector’s contribution to economic expansion for the year, local economists said.
PCCI cites short-, long-term solutions to address congestion at Manila port
The country’s largest business organization, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), has prescribed short- and long-term solutions to address the congestion at the Port of Manila which, the group said, is hurting the local business sector.