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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
DOTC discloses nationwide airport development
THE Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) is expected to complete Phase 3 of its Nationwide Air Navigation Facility Modernization Project (NANFMP) by June this year, as it looks forward to finishing six other high-impact air transportation projects nationwide.
In a report to Malacanang, Transportation and Communication Secretary Leandro Mendoza said the NANFMP covered modernization works on the Laoag (Ilocos Norte) and Kalibo (Aklan) airport control towers.
Mendoza said civil works for the NANFMP are 63.66 percent complete. The project is backed by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation’s (JBIC) 21st Yen Loan Package.
By August 30, the development of the Davao International Airport would be finished, he said.
The Asian Development Bank-financed project is 91 percent complete, he added.
Still in Mindanao, the DOTC is due to start the development of at least six airports, covered under the Third Airports Development Project, later this year.
Mendoza named the airports as those in Puerto Princesa, to be developed starting August 2003 and completed in May 2005; Cotabato, Butuan, Dipolog, Pagadian, and Sanga-Sanga inn Tawi-Tawi, all to be developed starting November 2003 and completed in June 2005.
The development of the Laguindingan Airport in Misamis Oriental will start in June 2004 and will be completed in November 2007.
In the Visayas, to be developed under another JBIC-supported Selected Airports Development Project Phases I and II are the New Bacolod (Silay) Airport and the Tacloban Airport.
Work on the two Visayan airports will commence on January 2004. The New Bacolod airport is expected to be completed in June 2006 while the Tacloban airport, in February 2006.
Meanwhile, development works on the New Iloilo Airport will start in August this year and is due for completion in January 2006.
Mendoza said the airports in Palawan, Davao and in northeastern Luzon would be modernized under the DOTC’s Communications and Navigation Surveillance and Air Traffic Management program. (OPS/SUNNEX LUZON) |
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