BOC to provide more cars for Asean summit
NEWLY installed Bureau of Customs (BOC) Port of Cebu District Collector Ricardo Belmonte pledged to provide more vehicles for the Asean summit delegates later this year.
Belmonte promised this after meeting Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña and City Councilor Sylvan Jakosalem last Tuesday afternoon.
The vehicles, Jakosalem said, will be for the delegates accompanying the heads of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) member countries and their dialogue partners.
The BOC earlier donated 10 right-hand-drive sports utility vehicles (SUVs) to City Hall for the police.
Jakosalem, chairman of the council committee on transportation, said Belmonte promised to let the City get vehicles it could use from among those kept at the BOC container yard.
The vehicles were seized by the BOC because of lack of import papers. Others are right-hand-drive vehicles, which are banned in the country.
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Luxury car manufacturer BMW earlier pledged to lend the country 17 brand new high-end vehicles for the heads of state of the participating countries.
It will also provide 55 other luxury cars for the ministers.
The high-end vehicles cost around P10 million each while the lower end units cost P3 million each.
BMW also pledged to provide the drivers for all vehicles and 100 liters of fuel for each car for the duration of the summit.
Osmeña, in an earlier interview, said the gesture means a savings of P200 to P300 million on the part of the National Government since it would no longer have to buy bulletproof limousines for the heads of state.