Capt. Antonio G. Buendia has been appointed director general of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), leading new blood taking over the…
Some PH truck owners exempt anew from anti-overloading law
Philippine truck operators have again been given more time to meet requirements before the anti-overloading law is imposed on trucks under Codes 12-2 and…
There will be massive changes at the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) during the first 100 days of new Transportation Secretary Atty Arthur…
DOTC signs pact transferring accreditation of sea freight forwarders to Marina
The Philippine Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has at last signed the long-awaited memorandum of agreement (MOA) that will transfer the oversight of…
Noel Eli Kintanar, assistant vice president (AVP) and executive director of property giant Ayala Corporation (AC), has been named as transport undersecretary for rail,…
Pact transferring PH sea freight forwarders’ accreditation to DOTC close to approval
A draft order that will effectively transfer the work of accrediting sea freight forwarders from the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to the…
EO in the way of accreditation body for PH multimodal transport operators
The push to have a national accreditation body for multimodal transport operators (MTOs) in the Philippines, one of the integrative actions being pursued by…
Bid submission for Davao port project moved yet again
The submission date for bids to the P19.8-billion Davao-Sasa port modernization project has been moved for the fourth time by the Department of Transportation…
Awarding of PPP projects to go ahead despite bid process postponements
The Philippine government is bent on awarding by June 30 some public-private partnership (PPP) projects whose bid submission dates were postponed by their respective…
North-South Railway Project sets new deadline for filing qualification docs
Submission of qualification documents for the government’s biggest public-private partnership (PPP) project—the P171-billion North-South Railway Project (NSRP)—has been moved back so interested companies can…
SC asked to stop Davao-Sasa port modernization project
Concerned citizens and resort owners in Davao have filed with the Supreme Court (SC) a Writ of Kalikasan and temporary environmental protection order seeking…
The Philippines’ first Multimodal Transportation and Logistics Roadmap has been officially launched, proposing short-, medium-, and long-term recommendations to help make the country a…
Bidding for 5 airport projects worth P108B postponed
The deadline for submitting bid proposals for five Philippine airport projects costing a total of P108.19 billion has been extended, according to the Department…
Bidding for P20B Davao-Sasa port postponed for the third time
The submission date for bids to the P19.8-billion Davao-Sasa port modernization project has again been moved by the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC)…
The Philippine government is hoping to convince the consortium that pulled out from the bidding of the Davao-Sasa Port Modernization project to reconsider its…
13 infrastructure works not covered by PH election ban on spending
A total of 13 public-private partnership (PPP) projects mostly under the Philippine government’s transportation agency are exempted from the ban on spending public funds…
Deadline for bids to P19.7B Davao port upgrade extended anew
The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has again moved the deadline for the submission of proposals for the P19.7-billion Davao-Sasa port modernization project…
First phase of Davao-Sasa port project to start June 2016
The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) intends to award the P19.7-billion Davao-Sasa port modernization project by March next year and start the construction…
