Our shipment has been scheduled to be examined by the BIR Inspector today. The broker sent me a text message at around 1:30pm that if I want to be present during the examination I should be there at around 3pm. I immediately sent him a reply that I can make it. I did make it on time, thank goodness. The terminal was located at the corner next to the Delpan Bridge at the North Harbor area in Manila. When we got in, we told the guard we were going to meet our broker there. I called my broker and he said his colleague will meet me there (again!). His colleague / assistant brought us over to the waiting area. The place was a container terminal but it was not as scary as the south harbor, but still it was quite chaotic outside their gate. After a few, minutes we were brought down to the warehouse. It was dark inside but it was a typical warehouse with lots of pallets of goods, mostly shrinkwrapped like ours.
We found 3 of the 4 pallets together and the other a few steps away. The guys there assisted us thoroughly. I took pictures of the pallets. Then the examiner came by, and just did things really fast, so in other words, everything went smoothly and swiftly. Before I knew it, it was over and the broker’s assistant told me our shipment will probably be in our doorstep tomorrow. Still there was no sign of the broker but nevertheless, I am glad it all went well.