Joint elements of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), Philippine Port Authority (PPA), and Philippine National Police (PNP) Maritime Group have seized assorted firecrackers with an estimated market value of P428,520 at Dalahican Port, Lucena City.

Reports said joint elements of Coast Guard K9, Coast Guard Detachment Dalahican, Field Station personnel of Coast Guard Station Lucena together with PPA Port Police and PNP Maritime Group seized assorted firecrackers on Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Dalahican Port, Lucena City.

Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo, PCG commandant, said the confiscation of the cargo resulted from a routine inspection conducted by the joint team to all rolling cargoes inside and outside the PPA Terminal Compound.

Lieutenant Commander Armand Balilo, PCG spokesman, said reports from Coast Guard District Batangas disclosed that while the team was conducting inspection on a six-wheeler Elf truck with plate number RBH 759 owned by a certain Dante Marquez of Barangay Poblacion, Boac, Marinduque and to be embarked to M/V Viva Virgin Peñafrancia 2 of Star Horse Shipping Lines bound for Balanacan Port, Marinduque, they confiscated assorted firecrackers.