HONG Kong says it has seized more than a tonne of ivory worth about $US1.4 million ($A1.34 million) in a shipment from Kenya, the city's third big seizure in less than three months.
Customs said on Friday they seized the 779 pieces of ivory tusk, weighing 1.3 tonnes, that were cut up and hidden in five wooden boxes along with stone plates in a container marked "architectural stones" on Thursday.
The haul was worth an estimated HK$10.6 million ($1.4 million).
"It is not very often that you see architectural stones from Kenya ... (that's why) we saw this container as possibly storing high-risk goods," customs official Clare Kwan told reporters.
The department declined to say where the shipment, which passed through Malaysia, was headed. No arrests have been made.
The latest haul comes less than three months after Hong Kong made its record seizure in October of 1,290 pieces of tusk and a small number of ivory ornaments from Kenya and Tanzania that weighed a total of 3.81 tonnes.
In November, customs officers intercepted another container from Tanzania carrying 569 pieces of unpolished tusks weighing about 1.3 tonnes.
Despite the large seizures, customs denied Hong Kong had become a smuggling hub for the illicit ivory trade.
"There is no information suggesting that there is an increasing trend of smuggling ivory tusks," ports control head Vincent Wong told the same news conference.
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