Section 4Sec./Art. 4

Carriage of a Foreign Cargo by a Foreign Vessel. A foreign vessel:

(a) Arriving from a foreign port, shall be allowed to carry a foreign cargo to its Philippine port of final destination, after being cleared at its port of entry;

(b) Arriving from a foreign port, shall be allowed to carry a foreign cargo by another foreign vessel calling at the same port of entry to the Philippine port of final destination of such foreign cargo;

(c) Departing from a Philippine port of origin through another Philippine port to its foreign port of final destination, shall be allowed to carry a foreign cargo intended for export; and

(d) Departing from a Philippine port of origin, shall be allowed to carry a foreign cargo by another foreign vessel through a domestic transshipment port and transferred at such domestic transshipment port to its foreign port of final destination.

For purposes of this Act, an empty foreign container van going to or coming from any Philippine port, or going to or coming from a foreign port, and being transshipped between two (2) Philippine ports shall be allowed.