CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines – The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) is expanding and upgrading the port facilities in Cagayan de Oro and Tacloban cities and has completed the expansion of the port in Pulupandan in Negros Oriental.
“At this time, the current ports structure plan of PPA has put premium in pursuance of its mandate to provide the country’s sea travelling public with more efficient, appropriate and modern port facilities and equipment on our key ports or major gateways like the Cagayan de Oro (CDO) Port, which is the only major port serving the entire CDO and its neighboring provinces,” said PPA general manager Juan C. Sta. Ana in a statement.
“To date, the CDO port caters to an average of 1,200 passengers daily during regular, and 2,500 passengers daily on peak seasons,” said Sta. Ana, adding that “on vessel calls, the port receives seven vessels a day ranging from superferries, liners and tramping vessels.”
On cargo, the port averages around 12,500 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit) every month. “In view of these considerations, the PPA has lined up a number of infrastructure projects that hopefully could be implemented in the medium term and which would allow the port to accommodate projected increase in port traffic.”
He said the PPA will pursue the implementation of the following individual projects at this port in the latter part of 2011 and 2012 to include the paving of around 20,500 square- meter newly developed operational back-up area to provide additional space for storage of container cargoes; the construction of a new two-story passenger terminal building (PTB) designed to accommodate 1,500 passengers at any given time, and the construction of three “roll-on, roll-off’ (RO-RO) berths that would accommodate large long-haul R0-R0 vessels of GRT ranging from 6,500 to 19,000 MT and with a minimum draft requirement of 7.0 meters.
On the other hand, the” Tacloban Port Improvement/Rehabilitation Project (TPIRP) involves the “expansion” of the existing wharf of the port. “This would require the installation of steel pipe sheet piles and waling (1,456 MT), rockworks (15,378 cu. m.), fill materials (37,544 cu. m.), and tie rods (14 sets of 32 mm x 18 m and 90 sets of 70 mm x 24 m). This port handles both foreign and domestic cargoes.
On the construction of the new wharf project at the port of Pulupandan in Negros Oriental, GM Sta. Ana said, “the revised contract amount is P411.2 million. The project was completed in 2005 during the previous administration , he said.
“To date, the CDO port caters to an average of 1,200 passengers daily during regular, and 2,500 passengers daily on peak seasons,” said Sta. Ana, adding that “on vessel calls, the port receives seven vessels a day ranging from superferries, liners and tramping vessels.”
On cargo, the port averages around 12,500 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit) every month. “In view of these considerations, the PPA has lined up a number of infrastructure projects that hopefully could be implemented in the medium term and which would allow the port to accommodate projected increase in port traffic.”
He said the PPA will pursue the implementation of the following individual projects at this port in the latter part of 2011 and 2012 to include the paving of around 20,500 square- meter newly developed operational back-up area to provide additional space for storage of container cargoes; the construction of a new two-story passenger terminal building (PTB) designed to accommodate 1,500 passengers at any given time, and the construction of three “roll-on, roll-off’ (RO-RO) berths that would accommodate large long-haul R0-R0 vessels of GRT ranging from 6,500 to 19,000 MT and with a minimum draft requirement of 7.0 meters.
On the other hand, the” Tacloban Port Improvement/Rehabilitation Project (TPIRP) involves the “expansion” of the existing wharf of the port. “This would require the installation of steel pipe sheet piles and waling (1,456 MT), rockworks (15,378 cu. m.), fill materials (37,544 cu. m.), and tie rods (14 sets of 32 mm x 18 m and 90 sets of 70 mm x 24 m). This port handles both foreign and domestic cargoes.
On the construction of the new wharf project at the port of Pulupandan in Negros Oriental, GM Sta. Ana said, “the revised contract amount is P411.2 million. The project was completed in 2005 during the previous administration , he said.
By YUL MALICSE
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