Avoid 'fly by night' cargo express companies, warns Philippine official

Avoid 'fly by night' cargo express companies, warns Philippine official

  DUBAI - A Philippine government official based in Dubai has warned Filipinos to avoid "fly by night" companies when they send care boxes or balikbayan boxes. All freight forwarders operating in the Philippines should be accredited with the Fair Trade Enforcement Bureau (FTEB) of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), said Commercial Attache Eric Elnar. "Accreditation with DTI is important as this gives recognition or credibility to the legal existence of the freight company, authorizing the entity to engage in freight forwarding business. To promote and protect the interest of the shipping public, FTEB helps to professionalize the freight forwarding industry by granting accreditation based on certain criteria to weed out those companies that are not yet ready and qualified to engage in the business," he explained. Elnar added that the FTEB regularly issues the latest list of accredited seafreight forwarders and their foreign agents, which is available at the DTI's website: http://www.dti.gov.ph/consumers/accredited-seafreight-forwarders. "We wish to remind Filipinos to send their balikbayan boxes only through freight forwarding companies accredited by the DTI. This is to ensure that they are not dealing with 'fly by night' cargo companies who are usually the subject of complaints of missing or undelivered balikbayan boxes," Elnar said. Customers have confidence in cargo companies with a good reputation and can offer reliable and fast delivery services, said Mark Jayvees Mendoza, Makati Express Cargo Marketing Executive. Mendoza, quoting sales figures from Makati Express Cargo, said majority of people who send balikbayan boxes from the UAE are hoteliers, skilled workers, sea farers, domestic workers. DAJ/Expat Media

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