International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) is promoting the use of its Cavite Gateway Terminal (CGT) in Tanza, Cavite as an alternative site for importers and exporters especially with the temporary closure of the southbound portion of Roxas boulevard.
The availability of CGT is seen as averting possible clogging at the ports.
Christian Gonzalez, ICTSI executive vice president, said in a statement the company recently strengthened the yard and wharf operations of CGT, deploying additional landside container handling equipment as well as directly contracted barge equipment.
With an area of six hectares, the CGT has the capacity to handle 115,000 twenty-foot equivalent units annually.
CGT is the country’s first dedicated container barge terminal, that optimizes the sea lanes of Manila Bay while providing alternate means of transporting containers from the Port of Manila to the Calabarzon area south of Manila and back, noted Gonzalez.
Gonzalez said the enhancements at CGT came at an opportune time with the temporary closure of the southbound portion of Roxas boulevard, said Gonzalez.
“We shall continue to support the country’s importers and exporters not only through enhancements in our operated terminals, but also through practical solutions and alternatives for our importers and exporters,” he said, adding ICTSI supports the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s (MMDA) call to look for other ways to transport containers.
Recently, the MMDA announced the temporary closure of the boulevard’s southbound lanes to give way to the Department of Public Works and Highways’ repair of a damaged box culvert in front of a pumping station in Pasay City, and civil works related to the Department of Transportation’s Light Rail Transit Line 1 Cavite Extension Project.
Roxas Boulevard is part of a cargo truck trade route connecting the Port of Manila to Southern Luzon. Close to 900 trucks and over 1,000 trailers daily travel the road’s southbound direction alone.
