The Port of Manila ranked no. 34 in 2006 amongst the world’s busiest container ports with total throughput of 2.72 million TEUs
The Manila International Container Terminal, the country’s largest, handled 1.37 million TEUs in 2007
Total average per annum container throughput nationwide is about 4 million TEUs with most of the box traffic concentrated in the Port of Manila
Four new container terminals have been built since 2004: Batangas-Phase II (400,000 TEUs), Mindanao Container Terminal (270,00 TEUs) and the Subic Freeport’s NCT-1 (300,000 TEUs) and NCT-2 (300,000 TEUs)
International transshipment traffic is negligible as Philippine ports are dependent on import and export cargoes
The local shipbuilding market is dominated by three foreign players – South Korea’s Hanjin, Japan’s Tsuneishi and Singapore’s Keppel
100% foreign ownership of shipyards is allowed under Philippine law
Filipino-owned shipyards have been limited, for the most part, to shiprepair. The two notable exceptions are Herma Shipyard, which has recently gone into tanker shipbuilding, and Aboitiz-owned catamaran builder FBMA Marine
The Philippines is the world’s largest crew supplier with Filipinos estimated to man at least one-fifth of the world merchant fleet
A total of 263,662 Filipino seafarers were deployed in 2007
Rough estimates place the total number of registered seafarers at 700,000
There are some 390 manning agencies but the market is dominated by a handful of large crewing outfits
As of end-Feb 2007, a total of 149 public and private schools nationwide (inclusive of their branches) were conducting the BS Marine Transportation and/or BS Marine Engineering programmes
Only six or seven Philippine nautical academies can be considered as up to par with international standards
Seafarers' training is big business in the country, although only a handful of training institutions are well-equipped and provide quality training
The Philippines has a small marine manufacturing sector
A few companies are engaged in the fabrication/assembly of buoys and other navigational aids, marine paint manufacturing and the production of large-diametre pipes for ports and other infrastructure projects
The country does not manufacture port cranes or containers (its only container plant was shut down many years ago)
Last updated May 2008
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