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Manila Internationat Coniainer Terminal
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North Harbor, Manils
Tel. No.: 245-8?47 Fax No,: Z4E-S14t
Mobile No,: 0S178418g4?
Email: ctaptruckers@yahoo.corfi
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September 09, 2014
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REhiE ATMENDRAS
Cabinet Cluster on Port Congestion
Office of the Fresident
MalacannilB, Manila, Philippinen
Dear Secretary Alrnendras,
We the Directors of the Confederation
of Truckers
Association
of the Philippines (CTAP) on behalf
of our members would like to
irrrplore the help and assistance of your good of1ice in connection
with the perennial port congettion
problem at South Harbor Manila
Port prenri+es. Verily, the aforenrentioned
problem hampered
the
austainable mobility of containef
cargoes to the prejudice
of our
national economy.
Worst, the City of Manila implernented
a day time
truck ban under
Ordinance Ncl. 8336
that add rnore burdened and
wtlr.'iened the Port congestion because it limits the time of truck
operators to pull ottt corrtainers frorn
the port, Consequently,
clamor
for ggyernment
intervention by all sectois
d.irectly
affected by the
port congestion and Manila truck ban wf,s very
strong and evident,
hence, a 24 Hours Expresu Trade Lane was
granied to truck
operator$,
Urrfortunately,
as c$mffionly
obuerved
despite the grant
of the
2+ Hour Expresn
Trade Lane the probrem with
regard to port
congestion
and moving out and entry of containers
f** the
port
premises
renrain constant. Thus, the $ector being directly
affectej
by
this problem. we coflducted qur
own investigation and consultation
to our-respective
Hlernbers to properly
determined
the root cause
of
the problern
- Resultantly,
based
rrn our investigatipn
and
connultatiory we
determined that the cau-qe of tlus perennial
problern
of port congestion
is the inefficient
and ineffective
pr:rt managernent
operations
most particularly with the
Asian Terminsl
lncoritratecl
(ATI)' Its already
our problem
decade ago hefore the implementati*n
P H HI F H H S /"
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GEN EDGAR B AGLIFAY PNF
{ret,)
Chairrnan Enreritus
cOL R0D0LF0 T DE OCAMFO (ret,)
Chairman
RUPERTO $. BAYOCOT
Fresident
EDGARDO V OLEGO
Vice"President for lntornal Affairs
fuIARIO O YAP
Vice.President for External Affairs
JAY MARION D. ERCIA
Ttea$urer
VIRG|LIO l\4. JAMERO
Auditor
EDITHAA. MACA$IRAY
$ecretary
EDUARDO K, DAVID
Assl, $ecretary
JESUSITO Y CORTEZ
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PEPITO F. DINO
NILO A, MRTITRnI
ALBERTO H $UANSING
MARIA B ZAPATA
AFFILIATE MEMBEH$:
(jagayan
Aggngetes And River Gravel
Haulers Asrociation lnc (CARGHA)
Cebu Truqker+ Association lnc, (CTAI)
Leyle Truclters Association (LTA)
Negros Consolidatpd Truckers
Asrociation (C0NTRA)
Suhic 8ay Hsulerq Associstior
Truclters Assoc
jalion
of Drvro to
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Accaterale 0evelopment
{TADTAD)
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of ordinence 8336, that there is a long queing of trucka going to South
Harbor (ATI) and while the truckq are innide, it will take 4
*
E hours
uf waiting, Iike unloading of ernpty container and loading
+f impurt
containers to our trucks (double
transaction).
In connection thereto, we would like to invite the attention of
your good office with regard to actual
operations and situation.$ at
Atiian Terminal Incorporated (ATI) and the problem
faced by our
member truck operators
therein, to wit;
1' The ATI has no snfficient equipment
that woulcl
commerl^surate to the dernands of their daily port
operations. Thus, to
solve this problern,
the ATI shall be required to pwchase
the
necessary additional equiprnent in order to fully utiliae their daily
operation to the berrefits of all concemred.
2. The port management
systern adopted
and implernented by
the ATI was higFrly vulnerable to corruption wherein
our momber
truck operetors are rnade to wait
and
4uf
for 4 tp I hours due to the
alleged non-availability of slots as advised by the checker/ernployee
of Shipping Lirtes.
However, it i+ a common knowledg* tfrat if a
monetary consideraHon be given that rantes from 300 to 800
pesos
per slot would imrnediately
be available.
To rernerty this problem, the
emPty slot available to att stripping line must be publish on a bulletin
board oPen to truckers/drivers
and not being controlled by the
checker:/employee of the shipping lirres,
The help and asaistance that your good office can extend to the
Confederation of Truckers Association
of the Philippines
regarding
this rnatter is highly appreciated.
Tharrlq you and hoping tor your favorable and immediate
action on tirls matter. We retnain
EDGART}DV.
fltEGO
I}- ERCIA
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