Subic Bay International Terminal Corp. (SBITC) is set to open by the second week of November its on-dock container freight station (CFS) at the New Container Terminal 2 (NCT 2).
The CFS, the first and only facility to serve the Central Luzon market, features an initial storage space of 840 square meters, which can be extended up to 1,860 square meters. The facility, which features state-of-the-art equipment and 24-hour CCTV cameras, can strip or stuff eight containers simultaneously.
In an advisory, SBITC said it tapped consolidator ECU Worldwide Philippines Inc. to cater to clients’ less than container-load (LCL) import and export requirements.
“Their wide array of value-added services and outsourcing solutions make them competent in handling and transporting complex cargo anywhere in the world,” SBITC said.
Subic port’s NCT 1 and NCT 2 have a combined container yard space of 11.14 hectares with an annual capacity of 600,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs).
In 2015, containerized cargoes handled by the port jumped to 123,510 TEUs, a 60% increase from 77,177 TEUs in 2014.
For non-containerized cargoes, 7.5 million metric tons of goods were shipped through the port last year, 24% higher than the 6.1 million in the previous year.
