Two new consolidators are now providing services at the Port of Subic’s multi-user container freight station (CFS) located in New Container Terminal 2 (NCT 2).
In an advisory, port operator Subic Bay International Terminal Corp. (SBITC) said it has partnered with consolidators International Consolidators Phils. Inc. (ICPI) and Keihin Everett Forwarding Co. Inc.
ICPI is a Philippine-based air and sea consolidator, while Keihin is the local arm of Japanese cargo handling and logistics company The Keihin Co., Ltd.
The two join Ecu Worldwide (Philippines) Inc. in providing consolidation and de-consolidation services for the less-than-container load (LCL) shipments of exporters and importers.
In November last year, SBITC, in partnership with the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) and the Bureau of Customs Subic, inaugurated the first newly built CFS in Subic.
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The CFS has eight loading bays capable of stripping and stuffing eight containers simultaneously, and has an initial storage space of 840 square meters, expandable to 1,860 square meters. It also features state-of-the-art equipment and a 24-hour CCTV system.
SBMA chairman Martin B. Diño earlier stressed the importance of the CFS in boosting trade in the region.
“This new facility will definitely encourage our importers and exporters in Central Luzon to regularly ship their cargoes through the port of Subic,” Diño said.
There are currently 12 shipping lines—APL, Wan Hai, Maersk, MCC Transport, Swire Shipping, NYK, K Line, SITC, Samudera Shipping Line, Sinotrans, Evergreen, and Inter-Asia Line—calling at the port.
Subic port’s NCT 1 and NCT 2 have a combined container yard space of 11.14 hectares and a total annual capacity of 600,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). – Roumina Pablo
