CLARK FREEPORT: A three-hectare container depot has been opened here to decongest the Port of Manila and other ports in Northern and Central Luzon.
“This is the first container yard ever in an eco-zone, and this is the first time in the history of CDC that we will be addressing issues on clogged ports and traffic congestion apart from settling the concerns of our locators,’’ Clark Development Corporation president and chief executive officer Arthur Tugade said.
The operation of the depot started on Friday following the signing of a lease agreement by Tugade and CargoHaus Inc chairman Alberto Lina and president Rudy Fulo. He said the lease deal mandates the use of the Freeport property near the airport as storage house of empty containers shipped from Subic to Metro Manila, Southern, Central and Northern Luzon and vice versa.
Specific routes are also provided to trailers transporting the empty containers to avoid traffic along the MacArthur highway or other national highways.
Lina said the depot is seen to ease traffic in Metro Manila by 10 percent as well as double the savings of importers from Luzon, as they do not have pay much for gas, parking and cargo fees.
The Philippine star
