Ayala to expand warehouse portfolio

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Ayala Land Logistics Holdings Corp. (ALLHC) looks to raise its warehouse portfolio to 500,000 square meters (sq.m.) by 2025 from the current 309,000 sq.m.

Jose Luis Jalandoni, ALLHC chief executive officer, said the company wants to have a slice of the country’s data storage market at 36 megawatt-capacity.

Jalandoni said to achieve the 500,000 sq.m. target, ALLHC will have to build facilities, including industrial estates, in Visayas and Mindanao to “connect the dots” of the archipelago. Tn.

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“Right now most of our industrial parks and warehousing are Luzon-centric. But we are seeing opportunities to connect our Luzon facilities all the way down to Mindanao and this requires us to grow our business in the Visayas and Mindanao region to connect the Philippines and actually improve the supply chain of the country,” Jalandoni said.

ALLHC currently has 10 warehouse facilities catering to multiple channels, and includes the 100,000 facility in Binan, Laguna, the 17,000 sq.m. facility in Naic Cavite, the 31,000 sq.m. facility in Pampanga, the 64,000 sq.m. facility in Sto. Tomas, Batangas, and the 100,000 sq.m. facility in Calamba, Laguna.

A typical ALLHC warehouse measures 2,000 to 10,000 sq.m. of space, with ceiling height of 8 to 12 meters, floor load of 3,000 to 4,000 psi and loading bays with power meters depth and with canopies loads, which essentially serve the needs of logistic companies for a more more efficient operation, according to Jalandoni.

Jalandoni said the Philippine is strategically positioned for the expansion of data centers into the country as data centers look for alternative sites away from mature markets like Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and Australia.

“It’s interesting because Singapore is actually not allowing new data center projects anymore. In Hong Kong, and China, because of the EU (European Union) politics and privacy issues, there’s a move now to locate data centers outside of China and Hong Kong.

We think the Philippines is actually in a unique position to take advantage of this evolution in the market,” Jalandoni said.

Jalandoni noted for one, the Philippines has very little data storage capacity while being one of the biggest users of internet data globally.

“Filipinos like using social media… Overseas Netflix, the data is actually stored elsewhere.

So we see an opportunity to actually move some of this data storage into the Philippines,” he said.

Jalandoni said the Philippines will actually need 100-150 MW of data storage capacity for the projected shift of data centers.

“We’d like to be part of this market with a 36 megawatt facility,” he said.

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