Attempt to smuggle sand foiled

[metalslug]

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/12/4/nation/7559613&sec=nation

Attempt to smuggle sand foiled


PORT KLANG: The Selangor Customs managed to foil attempts to smuggle sand worth RM144,000 into Singapore by intercepting two barges and a ship.

Both sand consignments were being transported by the same company.

The department scored its first success on Nov 30 and the second on Dec 2.

Selangor Customs director Datuk Roslan Yusof said the department’s marine unit had on Nov 30 intercepted a ship and a barge transporting sand along in the Sungai Langat waters near Jugra, Banting.

Roslan said the substance was declared as mortar mix, however, upon examination it was sand.

The state has banned the export of sand.

He said that mortar mix could be exported without restriction while silica required an approved permit beginning Nov 1.

Roslan said the sand seized that day was valued at RM72,000,

The ship’s captain and seven crew members were brought in for questioning and could be charged soon as the offence was not compoundable.

Subsequently, Roslan said on Dec 2 at a private jetty in Carey Island, Banting another barge was detained.

The barge was transporting sand but its manifest showed it was transporting mortar mix. It was valued at RM72,000.

Roslan said a man who had come to the department on Thursday claiming to be the owner of both sand shipments had been detained for further questioning.

 

[zuoom]

is there a need to smuggle sand into Singapore?

 

[Char_Azn]

Nothing new. SG need sand. Indon and MY both trying to blackmail SG into getting whatever they ask so ban the export to SG. SG getting desperate, doing what it takes to get sand.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Nothing new. SG need sand. Indon and MY both trying to blackmail SG into getting whatever they ask so ban the export to SG. SG getting desperate, doing what it takes to get sand.

JTC is the biggest buyer of sand into S'pore. Other than M'sia and Indonesia, we get sand from Vietnam and Cambodia. Unfortunately, you must go through an ex-PAP MP to bring your sand in. In the recent past, CPIB probed this lucrative industry. No idea what happened after the probe.

 

[zuoom]

was driving past the bedok sand dunes. that's already hell a lot of sand there.

hence, we still need so much sand ah?

 

[saratogas]

We need alot of sand to bury all the dirty secret, if not Wikileaks will find out...

 

[Char_Azn]

was driving past the bedok sand dunes. that's already hell a lot of sand there.

hence, we still need so much sand ah?

Just to give U an idea of how much sand we use.

Most of the existing airport, the entire East Coast Park, Marina Bay, Tuas and Jurong Island is basically reclaimed from imported sand. And that's not even counting the sand we use for the seemingly endless construction projects in SG. There is also an ongoing massive reclamation project in the north. Bedok sandhill is a molehill compared to what we need. Simple logic, SG is desperate for sand and we are willing to pay nay amount to get it. Willing buyers = willing smugglers

 

[zuoom]

ok.

looks like the Vietnam and Cambodia source not enough?