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KARIBU Hekima Day Care Centre

The children along with Helen and her brother Chris pose with donated items. EES Shipping’s very own Helen Hack (Administration Director) is currently in Tanzania visiting the staff and children at the Hekima Day Care Centre. During her visit, she has been able to hand over the money that the staff in the office has […]

APL Panama meets Mexico Beach

Cast your mind back to Christmas 2005. Picture yourself on a beach just south of Ensenada, Mexico. The sun is shining. The sky is a shimmering baby blue. It’s tranquil and calm. At that moment, the APL Panama chugs past waiting to come into port. The port pilots and tugs that guide ships in are […]

Meth Seized from Labelling Machine

Australian Customs and Border Protection Services (ACBPS) have made an amazing discovering in an imported airfreight consignment from Mexico. The shipment arrived into Sydney Airport manifested as a metal “packaging system” labelling  machine. ACBPS officers completed an x-ray and physical examination of the package, locating inside a number of foil bags containing a white crystalline […]

Illicit Cigarettes and Molasses Tobacco

Illicit Cigarettes and Molasses Tobacco Wow, there has been another seizure made by Australian Customs and Border Protection Services (ACBPS). Customs officers have had a busy week, this time discovering the illegal importation of illicit cigarettes and molasses tobacco in a sea container at Melbourne Port. The container was ordered for x-raying at the Melbourne […]

Cocaine concealed in container ceiling

Approx AUD3.25 million worth of cocaine has been seized in Davao City, Philippines over the weekend. The discovery was made by shipyard personnel as they were preparing to load bananas into a 40-foot container when part of the ceiling collapsed exposing the contraband. Container walls are broken open after the ceiling collapsed. 51 blocks of […]

Frozen Heroin

A month long operation between the Thai and Australian Police has resulted in two men being arrested in Thailand for attempting to import 168 kilograms of heroin into Australia. Man being arrested in Thailand .. Even drug runners like to wear funny t-shirts.. With a street value of up to $95 million, the drugs were […]

Imported food must comply

All food importers have been put on notice by the Australian Government (Department of Agriculture) to comply with Australian Importing requirements. This comes as a Queensland importer was fined $7500 for breaching these rules.  The company director appeared before Southport Magistrates Court in Brisbane last week, he was then charged with one count of breaching […]

Maritime Industry assisting in search for flight MH370

All maritime traffic moving thru the Indian Ocean and South China Sea have been urged to monitor the Maritime Satellite safety messages in an effort to locate missing Malaysian Airliner MH370. Noel Choong, head of the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre said: ‘We are assisting in the search by sending our Inmarsat satellite broadcast (Enhanced Group […]

Khat imports seized

EES has reported on many different types of seizures made by Australian Customs and Border Protection Services (ACBPS) here in Australia. We’ve had gun components, methamphetamine and steroids. Today we bring you something a little different. Customs and Border Protection  in the U.S. have had a busy March, seizing a total of 150 pounds of […]