SUBIC BAY FREEPORT— Mekeni Foods, one of the country’s biggest and modern food processing firm based in Central Luzon will ship its meat imports to the Port of Subic beginning next months after more five years that Subic Bay International Terminal Corp. (SBITC), the private container port terminal and the Subic BOC collection district invited its management to make Subic its port of choice.
It was during the port congestion in Manila in 2014 when Mekeni Foods was woe by SBITC, BOC and the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority waged a vigorous marketing campaign to lure Northern and Central Luzon port users to shift to Subic to reduce shipping and transport expenses and enjoy non-color coding handicaps.
Although Mekeni’s plant facilities are located in Porac town, Pampanga, its management did not take advantage of the cheaper cost benefits of the Port of Subic.
At that time, SBITC was serving some 70,000 TEUs but its tripartite marketing push as boost its volume of business hitting more than 180,000 TEUs and even multi-national firms whose factories are located in CALABARSON are unloading their imports in Subic due to ease of moving their cargos within the day of unloading.
As a result the Subic BOC district under the leadership of Collector Maritess T. Martin is the beneficiary of the efficient and friendly working relationship among SBITC, SBMA Seaport and BOC.
Martin since her designation as Port of Subic collector by Commissioner Rey Guerrero at the start of the year has consistently surpassed its monthly revenue target and its 12 months total collection goals of P25.245 billion is easily achievable as it only need some P3 billion as this writing.
The district raised P21.714 billion revenues during eight months of the year. Aside from the traditional sources of revenues of payments by petroleum and use trucks and heavy equipment importers, the port income was boosted by the steel product importation of the builder of the New Clark City infrastructures, Martin said.
Port of Subic average monthly figures of more than P2.5 billion, registering some 100 per cent increase from previous revenues of P1.5 billion, hence its year-end target was increase from P18 billion to P25 billion this year.
