BATANGAS CITY, Batangas, Feb. 26 (PNA) — The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) welcomes the completion of the system upgrading by the Asian Terminals Inc. (ATI) of the Batangas Container Terminal, equipping the port gateway with a more wide-ranging operations infrastructure to support its fast growing container volumes.
DTI Regional Director Marilou Quinco-Toledo, head of the technical working group (TWG) tasked by the Regional Development Council (RDC) to facilitate logistics movement in the region, said in a press statement Thursday, that it is the aim of the RDC to fully utilize the potentials of the Batangas International Port (BIP) to make it as the best alternative to the Port of Manila.
ATI’s continuous investment on technology and equipment enabled the company to cope with its increasing cargo volume, including acquisition of additional quay cranes, gantry cranes, and other mobile gear has increased ATI’s annual throughput capacity to more than 300,000 TEUs, (twenty-foot equivalent units)
Its new IT-based information system offers faster and optimized transactions in terminal operations, making the Batangas Container Terminal an increasingly competitive alternative port that would provide support to the industries in Calabarzon.
Last year, ATI booked a record consolidated throughput of more than 1.0-millon TEUs, 8.6 percent more than in 2013.
According to an ATI source, more cargoes are expected to gravitate towards BIP in view of the proximity and ease of transport to the 46 economic zones located in the Calabarzon region.(PNA)