Chevron products fuel-marked at Batangas facility

Chevron Philippines Inc. (CPI), marketer of the Caltex brand of fuels, lubricants, and petroleum products, has undertaken live fuel marking at its import terminal…

Smaller loss, bigger revenues for Lorenzo Shipping in first 9 months

Domestic carrier Lorenzo Shipping Corporation (LSC) posted a net loss of P173.3 million in the first nine months of 2019, lower than the P188.9…

DTI pushes adoption of new road freight transport standards by truckers, forwarders

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Competitiveness Bureau (CB) is encouraging truckers to adopt best global practices and standards in their operations as…

Aggrieved PH threatens retaliatory tariffs on Thai car imports

The Philippines is considering imposing tariffs on auto imports from Thailand in retaliation for the neighboring country’s non-compliance with a World Trade Organization (WTO)…

73 transport, mobility projects dominate revised Build list

Transportation and mobility projects totaling 73 in all and worth P3.84 trillion dominate the Philippine government’s revised list of infrastructure projects under the “Build,…

Manila South Harbor completes yard 2 expansion

Around 5,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of static cargo space has been added at Manila South Harbor following completion of the expansion of Container…

Air France, KLM offer one-stop flight from Manila to Paris-Charles de Gaulle via Taipei

Air France and KLM are now offering a one-stop flight from Manila to Paris with a faster and smoother connection via Taipei. The service…

Joint drug bust nets shabu worth P6.8M

The Bureau of Customs (BOC), Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), Philippine National Police (PNP), and Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) have apprehended the consignee…

PH set to dislodge China as world’s top rice importer

Philippine rice imports are projected to reach a record 3 million metric tons (MT) by year-end, making the country the top rice importer in…

AISL: foreign carriers ready to comply with IMO 2020

Members of the Association of International Shipping Lines (AISL) are ready for the strict enforcement next year of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) global…

ICTSI declares 25% income growth for first 9 months

Port operator International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) reported a net income of US$204.968 million in the first nine months of 2019, 25% higher…

Cebu Pacific group profit surges 143% from Jan-Sept

Low-cost carrier Cebu Pacific and subsidiary Cebgo reported a net income of P6.754 billion in the first nine months of 2019, up 142.9% from…

Transportation, communication key to reaping BIMP-EAGA gain for Mindanao

Mindanao can only reap the benefits of being part of the Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines-East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) sub-region if Mindanao’s…

IMO launches free online reporting tool

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has made available online and free of charge a tool used by software developers for creating systems for exchanging…

BOC releases guidelines for submission of advance declaration to CTS

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has issued operational guidelines on the submission by foreign carriers and their agents of the advance cargo declaration and…

PPA uniform rules on port tariff out

Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has issued uniform port tariffs for use as base tariff on contracts categorized as Tier 3 under the agency’s new…

South Harbor’s Pier 13 closed from Nov 12—PPA

The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) is closing condemned Pier 13 in Manila South Harbor from commercial and non-commercial maritime and ancillary activities starting November…

BOC seizes shabu worth P40.8M at NAIA

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has apprehended a passenger at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) for attempting to smuggle into the country six kilograms…

Revised list of Build Build Build projects approved

The Investment Coordination Committee-Cabinet Committee (ICC-CC) and the Committee on Infrastructure (INFRACOM) Cabinet Level have jointly approved the revised list of 100 flagship infrastructure…

PH economic growth quickens to 6.2% in Q3

The Philippine economy grew 6.2% in the third quarter of 2019, with the services sector growing the fastest, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority…