By Daisy CL Mandap
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| CargoFlex HK collapsed from heavy financial losses, says ex-director |
A resigned director of CargoFlex Hong Kong has told the
Consulate in a letter that the beleaguered shipping company was unable to
deliver boxes paid for by customers for the past several months because of huge
financial losses.
In her letter dated Oct 12, Imelda M. Lansang said she had
written the statement “to explain why CargoFlex HK has failed to deliver as
promised some 400 boxes sent by its customers to recipients in the
The company’s irate customers have besieged the Consulate in
recent weeks to ask for help in getting their boxes delivered, and to hold to
account those responsible for the delayed shipments from as far back as May
this year.
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Lansang, who used to be the only Hong Kong-based director of CargoFlex HK, said she gave notice of her resignation at the end of March this year after realizing that the company’s losses were mounting, and that much of the money that was going down the drain was hers.
Lansang attached an audited financial report of CargoFlex HK
for the period of Apr. 1 to Mar 31, showing that she was owed a total of
$447,368 by the company. The report also showed the company was in the red by $835,628
at the time.
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| CargoFlex HK's financial statement shows net loss of nearly $900k at end of March |
Despite her huge personal losses and even after tendering
her resignation, Lansang said she was forced to fork out a further $138,703 to
get more than 400 boxes released from the company’s warehouse in
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She said that after consulting Arlie L. Tero, CargoFlex
But the last time she checked, she said the consignee was
yet to pull out the boxes from the forwarder as they remained unpaid.
She asked the Consulate to intercede so CargoFlex
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But in an interview with social media influencer Raffy Tulfo on Oct 13, CargoFlex Haulers’ Dinah Tero said the reason the remaining boxes were still stuck with the shipping company was because "the Hong Kong partner" had run into financial difficulty.
“Yung Hong Kong po
dapat ang nagbabayad for releasing, pero wala silang binabayad sa amin,”
Tero said. (The
Tulfo had looked into the CargoFlex mess after a number of
Filipino migrant workers in
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The workers said they had packed and paid for their boxes as
early as June and July this year. One said she had filled her box with presents
for her young son who was celebrating his birthday in August so it was a big
letdown when the cargo did not arrive as promised.
Tero promised that the boxes bound for Luzon would be released
and delivered within the month, while those headed for the Visayas and
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| Two of the boxes that were held up for months finally reached their destination |
That is not the case for many others, apparently. In comments made on the Facebook page of the show, several irate customers complained that their boxes remained undelivered, and hinted that the company had prioritized delivery to the three complainants so as to defuse the tension.
