TIM eMagazine Vol.1 Issue 1
Clark ecozone puts up
container yard to ease
Manila port congestion
The Bases Conversion and
Development Authority (BCDA)administered Clark Development
Corporation (CDC) opens up
the Clark Freeport Zone for the
establishment of a container
yard that will help decongest the
Manila port.
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CDA president Arnel Paciano D. Casanova
said CDC and Lina-led CargoHaus Inc. have
inked a lease agreement to put up a threehectare container yard in Clark Freeport
which can accommodate around 20,000
shipping containers.
The container yard in Clark Freeport can accept empty
containers from other ports such as the Manila Port and
other ports in Northern and Central Luzon.
“The container yard in Clark Freeport will help ease
congestion in the Manila ports and at the same time help
Central Luzon Special Economic Zone locators achieve
cost efficient movement of goods,” said Casanova.
“The action taken by CDC president Arthur Tugade is
commendable as it will greatly contribute to uplift our
economy,” he added.
He noted that it is the first container yard being
established inside a special economic zone.
BCDA also said the container yard in Clark Freeport
will help to clear up some roads of Metro Manila that are
used as parking spaces for empty shipping containers
which triggered heavy traffic situation in the metropolis.
The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) recently said the
number of empty containers clogging the Manila port is
now declining.
The Manila port congestion, which started since the
later part of 2013, was aggravated by the extended truck
ban implemented by the city government of Manila.
Two months ago, a total of 99,000 twenty-foot
equivalent units (TEUs) of containers were piled up at
the Manila Port. Empty containers also reached up to
22,000 TEUs. (PNA)
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