Cagayan de Oro-Iligan Infrastructure and Urban Planning Thread

[FrancisXavier]

this airport was planed way ahead of Bacolod's and Iloilo's but unfortunately, the very last to be implemented.

[FrancisXavier]

@sinjin, this is the pic of the start point of Macapagal Drive(West Diversion road)
sorry for the poor quality..

[boju]

[QUOTE=FrancisXavier]areal image of the unfinished CDO International convention center
[BTW, whats the latest news in this unfinished structure? I remembered last 2001 Local elections that politicians under this project boasted out that his project is very timely and can help much of the city folks but why it delayed too long? Almost half a decade but theres no sign when it can be use.

[FrancisXavier]

Lack of funds bai... I heard this project needs another P300M...
Calling senator Pimentel, how about this project? The concrete structure is getting weaker and weaker...

[cyrusal]

unfinished maybe because his son lost the mayor's seat at the last election and now mayor emano doesn't have any interest on it anymore..

[FrancisXavier]

Whatever happened to That CDOICC.. I hope they demolish the structure and build a park(similar to HighRidge) instead..

[FrancisXavier]

3 Flagship Project Update

A] Cagayan de Oro Convention and Civic Center


The Cagayan de Oro Convention and Civic Center is the first ever world class Trade and Convention Center being constructed in Mindanao. It was implemented utilizing the Design-Construct Scheme and is ideal for national, international and trade exhibits, as well as seminars and conventions.

Boasting of a 7,700 seating capacity, the Convention Center has several amenities like a multi-purpose hall that could accommodate 1,000 guests, a convertible indoor playing court, an exhibit area for 1,500 viewing guests with demountable partition for flexibility of expansion, 12 function rooms for 1,000 guests, 4 clubrooms with lockers and showers, cafeteria with approximately 100 seating capacity, and an administrative office, storage room and other support facilities.


B]Puntod-Kauswagan Bridge


Puntod-Kauswagan Bridge is being constructed across the Cagayan de Oro River connecting Barangays Puntod and Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City. The scope of work includes the construction of 352 meters long four (4) lanes Pre-stressed Concrete Bridge. The access road, including both approaches, will link the City Port Road in Puntod, with the National Highway in Opol, Misamis Oriental. The project involves the concreting of 8.465 kilometers four (4) lanes concrete road pavement and construction of Reinforced Concrete Deck Girder (RCDG) Bridge over Iponan River at Barangay Iponan.

C]Tagoloan Parallel Bridge


Tagoloan Parallel Bridge is constructed beside the existing Tagoloan Steel Truss Bridge extended with Reinforced Concrete Deck Girder (RCDG) Bridge. It is a two-lane bridge with a length of 529.30 LM and with a 1.266 kms two-lane Portland Cement Concrete Pavement (PCCP) Approaches. The structure is located along the Iligan-Cagayan de Oro-Butuan Road (ICBR), Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, and considered as a very vital bridge project in that side of the province.

[FrancisXavier]

Gov’t may seek ODA for railway plan in Mindanao


Inquirer
Last updated 06:30am (Mla time) 02/08/2007

OFFICIAL development assistance (ODA) may be tapped for a plan to build a $540-million Mindanao Railway System, an official of the Department of Transportation and Communication said.

Saudi Arabia, South Korea and China have expressed interest in the project, said Guiling Mamondiong, undersecretary for railway.

“But if private companies would like to undertake the project, they are most welcome to submit proposals,” Mamondiong said.

The feasibility study will be submitted to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) this month, he said.

According information on the NEDA online project-monitoring site, the Mindanao Railway System will link the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan and the Phividec Industrial Estate, Metro Iligan Regional Agri-Industrial Center, Alwana Business Park, Ayala Light Industrial Park, and FCDO Business Park.

“Although it is not a medium-term project, the government wants to at least start important works as early as possible, even if project completion would be beyond 2010,” Mamondiong said.

He said Cagayan de Oro-Iligan was the only industrial corridor in Mindanao.

The rail project will address calls of investors to improve Mindanao transportation facilities. Riza T. Olchondra, with INQUIRER.net

[FrancisXavier]

Monday, February 19, 2007
South Korea tech team finalizes plant inspection

THE technical team from Korea's largest steel company, Pohang Steel Corporation (Posco), arrived last February 13 here in Cagayan de Oro City.

The team, composed of engineers and other officials of the company, came for final evaluation of a prospective site of its nickel smelting plant at Phividec Industrial Estate in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental.

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City Mayor Vicente Emano said the investment would reach up to a whooping $1 billion, with an initial investment of $750 million once the firm pushes through with its huge project at the Phividec.

Emano is hoping that the said company will finally decide to invest here, owing to the city's conducive and investor-friendly atmosphere.

Posco originally wanted to invest in other areas in the country, but Emano said a business delegation from Cagayan de Oro and the province of Misamis Oriental managed to convince the firm to consider their options.

"Cheap labor costs, quality manpower, and complete modern facilities with full support from the local government are also advantageous to foreign investors," the city mayor added.

If the nickel smelting plant will be realized, this Korean investment is seen to contribute greatly to the economy of Northern Mindanao as well as to the island of Mindanao.

Posco is a 30-year-old company and the second largest steel manufacturer in the world that produces 28 million tons of crude steel per annum. (CIO)

For more Philippine news, visit Sun.Star Manila.

[FrancisXavier]

Mayor Emano approves P2.3M project in Balubal
by Rubelyn B. Yap/City Information Office
Date Published: 2007-02-16
City Mayor Vicente Y. Emano approved yesterday the P2.3 million allocation for the completion of the Balubal Nationalized High School.

In yesterday’s People to People Program (PPP) Mayor Emano approved the request of Brgy. Chairman Pablo Bactong for an additional funding to complete the construction of the 3-year old barangay high school. Barangay Balubal is a hinterland barangay in the eastern part of the city. High school students residing in the said barangay used to commute to neighboring barangay Agusan where the nearest barangay high school is located. With the opening of the Balubal Nationalized High School, students living in the said barangay are already spared the high cost of transportation and more elementary graduates are encouraged to pursue secondary education. Mayor Emano likewise ordered the City Engineering and Public Works Department to submit to him a program of works and costing of the road concreting from the National Highway to Balubal proper. Aside from the Balubal projects, Mayor Emano also disclosed that he already released the P16 million budget for the Calaanan road concreting from his 20% development fund budget last year. Another infrastructure project that Mayor Emano is set to approve before his term ends is the P1.2 billion Agusan parallel road that connects to Barangay Balubal and the J.R. Borja extension, providing easy access to A. Brown Company’s high-end subdivision in barangay Agusan. Mayor Emano added that the city government also got a national funding for the Tumpagon-Kaayunan bridge that connects Cagayan de Oro City and the town of Opol, Misamis Oriental. Once materialized, the bridge will be the 18th bridge implemented in the city under the President’s Bridge Program. Another major project that will be implemented early this year is the P400 million J.R. Borja Bridge funded by the Spanish government.

[FrancisXavier]

Thursday, February 22, 2007
PPA inaugurates Access Control Center
By Abigail C. Malalis

THE billionaire port in Cagayan de Oro once again proved its objective of attaining zero accident and better service to the public in the port area here in Macabalan.

The P2-million budgeted Access Control Center is now fully developed and has been in existence for a year now and has been in full implementation since Tuesday during the inauguration.

The Gate 4 or the Access Control Center is the place where centralized processing of security and safety are being held and caters to the need of pedestrians other than passengers and non-cargo vehicles.

"This is to avoid the risks that pedestrians will be facing in their day-to-day undertakings in the port area," thus, said Jessica Angeles, executive assistant and PIO-designate of PPA.

"Cagayan de Oro is again the first to have a centralized access control center in the Philippines, and it is in this manner that public safety will always be guarded," Angeles added.

The Gate 4 of Access Control inauguration was also in cooperation with Oroport.

[flymordecai]

Woohoo, Cagayan de Oro. I hope the airport construction begins ASAP. It's up there with the Iloilo and Bacolod airports. Is CDO the next big thing in Mindanao?

[FrancisXavier]

MCT validates free market, open competition for Mindanao ports hub system

By Mike Baños



The Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) at the PHIVIDEC Industrial Estate, Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental was originally conceptualized to maximize Northern Mindanao's potential as the Philippines' gateway to the Land of Promise (and vice versa), catalyzing Northern Mindanao's role as domestic food basket and agri-industrial exporter. The MCT has been identified as a Mindanao flagship project, one of the key infrastructure envisioned to jump start the island's potential to reality.

For Mindanao to fully realize its full potential as the country's food basket, the cost of transporting agricultural inputs coming in and agro-industrial products going out of Northern Mindanao had to be reduced. Originally, the MCT was designed to complement the Philippine Ports Authority's (PPA) Cagayan de Oro Base Port in realizing this objective. It was constructed as a key infrastructure component of the Northern Mindanao Medium-Term Regional Development Plan, 2001-2004 and is now operated by the PHIVIDEC Industrial Authority (PIA). The Cagayan de Oro Base Port (Macabalan) is the busiest and the most congested of the Mindanao's principal ports, having reached 100% berth occupancy rate as early as 1996. PPA statistics show the average annual growth rate from 1995-2002 for cargo, passenger and ship calls are 3.4%, 3.7% and 0.07%, respectively.

As the entry and exit point for the most traded commodities of the four main regions of Mindanao, the Macabalan port was already straining its limits in infrastructure and wanting key ancillary facilities such as quay side gantry cranes, rubber tired gantry cranes, bulk storage and handling facilities, among others, to efficiently meet the rising demand.

Vessel turnaround, especially critical for those transporting grain and fresh produce, was affected. Expansion would have been the logical answer but for key constraints like traffic congestion in the access road, displacement of occupants in expansion areas, and a truck ban by the LGU. But even at its planning stage, the PPA already opposed the construction of the MCT Phase 1 project, most of which was to be funded by a US$ 85.34 million (PhP 3.24 Billion) soft loan under the Special Yen Loan Package from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).

The Japanese Embassy wanted the lines between the roles of the MCT and Macabalan Port clearly delineated before it approved the facility. The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Cabinet-level Infrastructure Committee (Infracom) pressed PPA to agree to its proposed roles and responsibilities between the two ports : all passenger ships with containerized and/or bulk/grains cargo would be handled by PPA at Macabalan port, while ships with purely containerized and/or bulk/grain cargo would be handled by PIA at the MCT.


But PPA demurred. On 18 December 2002, then PPA General Manager Alfonso Cusi informed PIA it could not enter into MOA because it would constrain further growth and competitiveness of the Macabalan port.


Cusi said it was inappropriate for PPA and PIA to delineate their respective roles and functions which are already explicitly defined in the charters of both government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs). Moreover, it would be the shipper or cargo owner who would ultimately decide which port to use based on their respective market considerations.
As a GOCC, PPA infrastructure investments are financed by its operations and not the General Appropriation Act (GAA) so NEDA cannot tell it what to do, even if NEDA had a seat in the PPA Board.

As things are turning out, PPA was right all along in adopting this stance, correctly pointing out that port users make the choice on which of the Macabalan or MCT to use based on their actual requirements. The PIA which manages the MCT says they are now receiving regular port calls from three shipping lines: Maersk-Filipinas, NMC Container Lines and Hamburg-Sud with Lorenzo Container Shipping Corporation soon to join them.

The MCT was conceived to fill the supply gap for an efficient cargo handling facility with its state of the art facilities and cargo handling equipment, It has been designed to be exclusively operated for fully-containerized and semi-containerized domestic and foreign vessels with an annual capacity of 270,000 twenty equivalent units (TEUs) for its Phase 1.

For the nine-month period covering January 1 to September 30, 2006, containerized cargo throughput at the Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) totaled 24,949.33 TEUs. Taken together, the net throughput of Cagayan de Oro (Macabalan) base port and MCT shows a 5.7% rise in total TEUs of 8,535.33 despite the 11.03% drop (-16,414 TEUs) in containerized cargo at the Macabalan base port.



Domestic and foreign containerized cargo throughputs at both ports likewise reflects this trend: total domestic (inbound/outbound) in Macabalan dropped 10,381.5 TEUs (-7.7%) with foreign (import/export) likewise dipping 6,032.78 TEUs (-42.4%). However, in both instances, the decreased throughput in Macabalan port was made up for by the MCT: domestic cargo rose to 18,537.32 TEU's resulting to a net gain (less decrease in Macabalan port) of 8.535.33 TEUs (+5.7%) and foreign cargo showing similar gains with 6,412 TEUs resulting to a net gain (less decrease in Macabalan port) of 379.25 TEUs (+2.7%).


Participants to the 3rd Quarter Quarterly Regional Economic Situationer (QRES) hosted by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Region 10 office earlier this month noted foreign ship calls and trade in the government-owned base ports of Cagayan de Oro, Iligan and Ozamiz have decreased mainly due to Maersk Lines transfer to the MCT and the significant drop in imported dairy products used as raw materials in Nestle Phils. Inc. Cagayan de Oro plant.
A major reason for the transfer of containerized vessels to MCT has been its capability to unload a container van in about 2.5 minutes compared to 10 minutes for an ordinary port. With Oroport's refurbished gantry crane still inoperable almost two years after delivery, this translates to an actual 24 to 9 edge in container handling throughput for MCT. Although wharfage fees in MCT are higher than CDO Port, the almost 3:1 edge in cargo handling throughput directly translates to a faster turnaround time and significant savings in overall berthing costs.



Engr. Manuel Jamonir, Infrastructure Specialist with the Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) program, reiterated GEM's advocacy for three hub ports in Mindanao : North (MCT), South (either Davao or Gensan) and West (Zamboanga) in the light of this trend.



"Many share this advocacy," Jamonir said. "We can reduce the cost of shipping through economies of scale. We need the volume that would necessitate the deployment of bigger vessels since consolidation and inter-modal transport are among our key strategies."



For the MCT to get a bigger slice of that pie, Jamonir said PIA has to present the comparative cost in doing inter-modal from various origins in Mindanao.



If volumes from the south (i.e., Davao and Gensan, especially domestic) and from the east (Caraga) are transported to MCT, the total cost of domestic shipping would definitely come down, Jamonir added.



"This strategy could make Mindanao products very competitive in the domestic market especially in Metro Manila," he said.



Jamonir notes several foreign ships are still docking in the Port of Manila since Mindanao's volume for other foreign destinations is still limited. "We may not be able to avoid trans-shipment to Manila, but with the hub system, we can definitely lower the cost of the domestic component."

[FrancisXavier]

Ayala project to commence anytime soon
by Rubelyn B. Yap/City Information Office
Date Published: 2007-03-02


The Ayala Land Corporation, developer of the country’s high-end subdivisions will start anytime soon the development of its 350 hectares property in the mountains of Camaman-an and Indahag, this city.

City Mayor Vicente Y. Emano disclosed this after he approved the locational clearance of Ayala Land which is a pre-requisite to the granting of a development certificate. Mayor Emano said that after the Ayala Land Corporation shall have processed its development certificate, the company can already start to implement its development plan. Ayala is set to pour an initial investment of P4 billion to develop 80 hectares of the entire property and will continue to develop the remaining 270 hectares in the succeeding years. The company’s technical team is now in the city to hasten the processing of all necessary permits so construction can immediately begin. Ayala Land will develop in their property several villages that include residential units, sports facility, pocket park, watershed treatment facility, chapel, ravine orchards, promontory point, canyon trails and a central park. Mayor Emano said that Ayala Land’s presence in the city will certainly boost the city’s economy and will help employ thousands of Cagayanons who will be given priority in the hiring of employees in all investments that will be established here.

CIO

[SugarFreak]

Cagayan De Oro and Bacolod halos magkatulad ang kanilang infrastructures. like the roads are wide.

[Sera]

Originally Posted by FrancisXavier

Ayala project to commence anytime soon
by Rubelyn B. Yap/City Information Office
Date Published: 2007-03-02


The Ayala Land Corporation, developer of the country’s high-end subdivisions will start anytime soon the development of its 350 hectares property in the mountains of Camaman-an and Indahag, this city.

City Mayor Vicente Y. Emano disclosed this after he approved the locational clearance of Ayala Land which is a pre-requisite to the granting of a development certificate. Mayor Emano said that after the Ayala Land Corporation shall have processed its development certificate, the company can already start to implement its development plan. Ayala is set to pour an initial investment of P4 billion to develop 80 hectares of the entire property and will continue to develop the remaining 270 hectares in the succeeding years. The company’s technical team is now in the city to hasten the processing of all necessary permits so construction can immediately begin. Ayala Land will develop in their property several villages that include residential units, sports facility, pocket park, watershed treatment facility, chapel, ravine orchards, promontory point, canyon trails and a central park. Mayor Emano said that Ayala Land’s presence in the city will certainly boost the city’s economy and will help employ thousands of Cagayanons who will be given priority in the hiring of employees in all investments that will be established here.

CIO

Based dito, Ayala is puring an initial P4 billion for the 80 hectare residential estate plus groundworks/paving of thoroughfares...Withe the Business Park and Mall in the pipeline billions of pesos more of investments are set to come in this part of Cagayan de Oro, probably making the city Ayala's Business Hub in Mindanao

[Sera]

These are updates of the LimKetKai Center Skywalk Project


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[Sera]

Exclusive update of the CAGAYAN DE ORO CONVENTION AND CIVIC CENTER

Hold your breath.....

Courtesy from Mr. Mike Baños, one of the famous journalist and the KAABAG Awards 2006 Tourism Writer of the Year by the Department of Tourism Region 10 office.

From the Mailbox of Lew Angeles...

Pesent:

An International convention center update...


Boosting the seating capacity of 7,700.

CAGAYAN DE ORO CONVENTION AND CIVIC CENTER

[FrancisXavier]

Originally Posted by Sera

These are updates of the LimKetKai Center Skywalk Project

[/QUOTE]

based on LKK's website, Skypark ang tawag dito..

[WawaY[625]]

Originally Posted by FrancisXavier

this airport was planed way ahead of Bacolod's and Iloilo's but unfortunately, the very last to be implemented.

sige lang..when it will be implemented, mas en-grande naman!