Philippine Port System Nationwide

August 10th, 2011 by Filipino | No Comments | Filed in The News

There are sufficient ports to accommodate the strong republic nautical highway program (SRNHP) and what is needed is the proper marketing of these facilities for them to be optimally utilized.

This was the view of Iloilo Port Management Office manager Winfred G. Elizalde as he stressed that the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) is fully supportive of the stand of the current administration to cancel the proposed 66 port projects intended for the roll on-roll off (RoRo) program.

He added that many of those proposed port projects were to be situated in areas where “they don’t have traffic in the first place” and are situated near existing ports.

“PPA does not believe that we need all those 66 ports,” he said, citing the about 120 ports covered by the Philippine Port System nationwide.

”Many of them are not really being optimally used. In fact some of them are just used as comfort rooms they even say. We have constructed the most expensive comfort rooms in the entire country for the simple reason that they are not being used for the purpose for which they were constructed,” he said.

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