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CEBU CITY -- The Cebu Port Authority (CPA) gave some updates on its infrastructure projects at the Cebu port area with the complete procurement activities for the construction of the P500-million Pier 5 project and the New Cebu International Container Port Project (NCICPP) in Tayud, Consolacion costing some P9.962 billion to begin ground works in March and August 2021 respectively.
CPA general manager Leonilo Miole said Friday that the Construction of Pier 5 in Cebu Baseport begins next month with the issuance of Notice of Award, Notice to Proceed and the signing of Contract.
Miole said that the Pier 5 project has an approved budget for the contract (ABC) of P508,340,279 which will be financed through the CPA corporate budget. This is one of the major port infrastructure projects of CPA to help decongest the Cebu Baseport by providing additional berthing space and cargo area.
According to Miole that the project is a 155-meter length by 50-meter-wide reinforced concrete pier with the same concrete deck elevation, mooring facilities and back-up area coverage as Pier 4 which can provide approximately 7,750 sq.m. additional cargo back-up area and 360 linear meters of berthing space.
With a projected draft of 8.5 to 11 meters, this project also aims to accommodate the projected increase of domestic cargo and vessel traffic in Cebu, he added.
To recall, CPA has conducted a rebidding for this project after all the four eligible bidders were disqualified for failure to comply with the equipment requirements of the project.
BNR Const. & Dev’t Corp/A.ST Builders JV submitted the lowest bid price of P507,445,064.27. After the bid evaluation and post qualification by the CPA procurement committee, BNR Const. & Dev’t Corp/A.ST Builders JV was declared as the bidder with the lowest calculated and responsive bid. The project is expected to be completed in May 2022.
According to Engr. Romel Pegarom, acting manager of CPA’s Planning and Monitoring Division during the 160th Maritime Forum of the Maritime League on February23 that the Department of Transportation (DOTr) targets to award the project in July 2021 and that the groundbreaking is scheduled on August 16, 2021.
The NCICP Project costs around PhP 9,962,000,000.00 which will be financed through the $172.64-million loan agreement signed in 2018 by the Philippine government and South Korea’s Export Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) equivalent to P8.48 billion and a counterpart fund of around P1.28 billion by the Philippine National Government, Pegarom bared.
“We have experienced delays mostly due to lacking clearances and the COVID-19 pandemic, however, we look forward to the start of the construction of the project as we see it as a long-term solution to the congestion problems of the current Cebu International Port (CIP),” CPA General Manager Leonilo Miole said.
Once completed, CPA will operate the port which
will serve all international cargoes in and out of Cebu while the current CIP
at Cebu Baseport will form part of the Port of Cebu domestic port to augment
port domestic operations, Miole added.
Engr. Pegarom also disclosed that DOTr is currently addressing concerns on the Road-Right-Of-Way (RROW) acquisition for the construction of an access road to connect the international port to the main road in Barangay Tayud and the processing and approval of the Grant of working visa for its Korean consultants by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).
Consolacion Municipal Government and DOTr are set to ink a memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the downloading of P132 million budget to proceed with the RROW acquisition, Pegarom said.
According to Pegarom that the new port includes
a berthing facility with a 500-meter-long quay wall that can simultaneously
accommodate two 2,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit vessels; operating facilities
and structures for containers such as a freight station and an inspection shed;
an access road and bridge; and a dredged waterway and turning basin.
Aside from the construction of physical structures, the project also covers the procurement of cargo-handling equipment and consulting services. The NCICP project is set to be completed on May 28, 2024, CPA added. (Photos: CPA)
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