Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority chairman Martin Dino declared a war on smugglers using Subic as entry port for fuel products estimated to be worth billions of pesos.
He made the statement following the recent foiled importation of 200,000 metric tons of refined sugar from Thailand through Subic Freeport.
Dino said to stop smuggling of fuel product, all gasoline and diesel fuel should be marked before they could be shipped out of Subic.
“In other words, color-coding. It is a strong deterrent to fuel smuggling,” Dino, who was named by President Rodrigo Duterte in September to head SBMA, said in a statement.
Dino said this practice would make it easier for SBMA law enforcers “to catch the marked fuel being sold around Subic.”
“This will be a strong basis for us to take the necessary legal action against those involved,” he said.
