[wildtrade] Vietnam port seizes ivory in boxes

[Vern Weitzel]

http://www.cargonewsasia.com/secured/article.aspx?id=3&article=18942

Vietnam port seizes ivory in boxes

The Hai Phong Port Customs Department has launched an investigation into the 
illegal trafficking of 6.2 tonnes of elephant tusks, according to Thai News Service.

Department officials discovered 114 cartons of raw ivory in a container on 
Malaysian vessel Hubezo.

The container was loaded in Tanzania in late January, went through Malaysia, and 
docked in Vietnam on February 28.

The tusks, each cut into two or three pieces, were determined to be from African 
elephants of various ages.

Customs officials say the shipment is the biggest so far seized in Hai Phong, 
and is valued at tens of millions of dollars.