Literally. We had shipped some of our personal possessions onto a forwarding agent back on the 12th February for shipping over to Korea. The consignment was about 250Kg, based on a pallet with 8 boxes of goods on it. It was due to land on the 19th March in Busan, with a forward road transport up to Incheon near Seoul, where it would clear customs and then be delivered to the plant here in Ansan. If there were going to be any problems, we thought it would have been in Incheon, clearing Korean customs. How wrong as usual – it turns out UK customs did the dirty on our container, and seized it before it was loaded onto the boat. Boat then sailed off, minus our goods.
It turns out that the waybill for the container, which contains multiple loads destined for many places including Korea, had a box of scrap metal, which apparently “could” be used to make guns. It kind of reminded me of the Super gun affair some years ago, when Matrix-Churchill was accused of delivering a load of oil refinery pipe work to Iraq, and were told by customs, that if it was stuck together, it could be used as a big gun! Needless to say, it caused a huge furor and people got sent to jail, but got let our when other people came to their senses. I just hope that our boxes with all the stuff in still has most of it left. I had the PS3, HD-DVD and loads of DVD’s in there!
Its currently on the Hyundai Mercury, sailing at a leisurely 8.25 Knots along the English channel, heading to Port Said to pick up the Suez canal. It’s due to arrive in Incheon on 19th April. At least my stuff is getting a nice sightseeing cruise out of it. I hope it’s got an outside cabin with balcony!
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