Mediterranean Shipping Company

FreightWaves Staff Friday, June 21, 2019

MSC loses preferred customs status over cocaine bust on ship (with video)

Following a second large drug bust aboard its box-ships this year, international ocean container shipping line Mediterranean Shipping Company has had its Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) certificate suspended by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. The agency acted after two of MSC’s ships this year were found to have large volumes of […]

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FreightWaves Staff Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Philadelphia Port sees second drug bust on container ship this year (with video)

The Port of Philadelphia is the scene of a major cocaine bust, the second one involving a container ship operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company. U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators said an inspection of shipping containers aboard the MSC Gayane “resulted in a substantial cocaine seizure in Philadelphia.” The ship, […]

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