Cat Lai customs work with 58 shipping firms over waste imports

Cat Lai customs work with 58 shipping firms over waste imports The Saigon Times Daily Waste containers pile up at Cat Lai Port in HCMC. Cat Lai customs officials have worked with 58 shipping firms over imported waste backlog at the port – PHOTO: VNA HCMC – Customs officials at HCMC’s Cat Lai Port have worked with representatives of 58 shipping companies that have transported over 3,000 containers of scrap to the port to determine their responsibilities and brief them of the Prime Minister’s Directive 27 on solutions to enhance control over imported waste, Thanh Nien newspaper reported, citing Pham Thi Leo, deputy head of Saigon Port Area 1 Customs Office. Leo said the customs agency was cooperating with these shipping companies in line with the 2014 Customs Law and 2005 Maritime Law. Shipping companies were asked to carry ineligible scrap imports out of Vietnam. They must assume responsibility for the waste containers until these containers find their owners. However, most of the representatives of shipping companies attending the meeting with customs officials were unable to make decisions to resolve the problems and had to contact their superiors for direction. According to the shipping companies, it is impossible to transport containers of secondhand products to other countries. In response, the customs office requested them to pay all costs for destroying illegal waste imports. According to the Saigon Port Area 1 Customs Office, as of October 2, some 4,000 containers storing scrap were abandoned at Cat Lai Port, including more than… [Read full story]