17.5 Tons of Cocaine found on Containership
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)-led multi-agency examination of shipping containers at the Philadelphia seaport netted a historic load of cocaine, the largest cocaine seizure in the 230-year history of U.S. Customs and CBP, with an estimated weight of over 17.5 tons and a street value of about $1.1 billion.During a midstream joint boarding Sunday night, CBP, HSI, and U.S. Coast Guard authorities detected anomalies while examining seven shipping containers aboard the MSC Gayane…
$22 Mln Cocaine Bust in Port of Philadelphia
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said its officers in the Port of Philadelphia seized 709 pounds of cocaine concealed inside furniture on a containership arriving from Puerto Rico, the largest local cocaine load discovered by the CBP in a decade. Officers made the discovery after detecting an anomaly in one of the shipping containers while conducting inspections a seaport in Pennsauken, N.J., on November 2. The contents of the container were emptied at CBP’s Centralized Examination Station in Philadelphia…
Hagen Appointed as VP at Intermodal Shipping Services
Intermodal Shipping Services, Inc., has named Michael G. Hagen as vice president, where he will lead trucking, container yard (CY), container freight station (CFS), rail operations, as well as overseeing the operation of the Centralized Examination Station (CES) for U.S. Customs Service. Hagen brings over 20 years of trucking and logistics experience to Intermodal Shipping.
