{"id":37995,"date":"2016-07-11T20:09:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T20:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.pinoy-ofw.com\/?p=37995"},"modified":"2024-07-07T01:58:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T01:58:38","slug":"balikbayan-box-companies-filipinos-in-hong-kong-should-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/37995-balikbayan-box-companies-filipinos-in-hong-kong-should-avoid.html","title":{"rendered":"Balikbayan Box Companies Filipinos in Hong Kong Should Avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two cargo forwarding companies based in Hong Kong are\u00a0among companies blacklisted\u00a0foreign forwarders and consolidators\u00a0by the Department of Trade and Industry \u00a0(DTI) in its July 2016 advisory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0list was compiled by the DTI based on complaints of undelivered and mishandled balikbayan boxes. Non-delivery of balikbayan boxes\u00a0can be tracked to failure of foreign consolidators to remit a portion of fees collected from customers to Philippines-based couriers and freight forwarders.<\/p>\n<p>The two companies blacklisted in the <strong>July 2016<\/strong> update are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ford Cargo International<\/li>\n<li>Asia Express HK<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-37996\" src=\"http:\/\/news.pinoy-ofw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/balikbayan-box-content-1024x613.webp\" alt=\"balikbayan-box-content\" width=\"767\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/balikbayan-box-content-1024x613.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/balikbayan-box-content-300x180.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/balikbayan-box-content-768x460.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/balikbayan-box-content-1536x920.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/balikbayan-box-content.webp 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two cargo forwarding companies based in Hong Kong are\u00a0among companies blacklisted\u00a0foreign forwarders and consolidators\u00a0by the Department of Trade and Industry \u00a0(DTI) in its July 2016 advisory. The\u00a0list was compiled by the DTI based on complaints of undelivered and mishandled balikbayan boxes. Non-delivery of balikbayan boxes\u00a0can be tracked to failure of foreign consolidators to remit a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-start-here"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46327,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37995\/revisions\/46327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}