High Shipping Cost: A 30-Year Issue

Feb. 22 | Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry mainstay Donald Dee says he and other leaders of the country’s biggest business organization have been making noise about the problem of high domestic freight for no less than 30 years. Bobby Amores, head...

Francis

Feb. 14 | Last Friday night SCMAP held the induction of its incoming officials – directors and committee chairpersons, at the EDSA Shangri-la Hotel, in a simple ceremony. Basically the ceremony included just the necessary parts. Welcome remarks by outgoing President...

PEZA E-Payment Facility

Feb. 10 | Philippine Export Zone Authority (PEZA) Memorandum Circular 2012-006 dated 02 February 2012 on the subject: PEZA’s E-Payment Facilities has just been issued and it provides that: - PEZA Memorandum Order 2011-11 dated 29 December 2011 entitled “Guidelines...

A Running Start

Jan. 31 | After a simple blessing of SCMAP’s office on Dec. 26, 2011, SCMAP started the new year with its first board meeting on January 6, 2012 to discuss the composition and leadership of the different committees. On Jan. 11-19 SCMAP sent two participants to...

Infra, Infra, Infra

Jan. 31 | It has not been adopted yet as one of the mantras of the Aquino administration. But we hope it will soon be elevated to the level of catch phrases “inclusive growth” and “sustainable development” which government’s economic managers keep on...

Oil Again

Jan. 19 | Oil Price Watch From October 2007 to September 2008 I wrote 5 columns which dealt with oil prices and their effect on transport cost and supply chains. In October 2007 crude oil breached $90 per barrel. Subsequently crude oil breached $100, then $130,...

COGSA One-Year Prescriptive Period

Jan. 19 | CAN the one-year COGSA rule benefit the marine insurer? No, and this is the story. Sometime in 1993, New Word Dev. Corp. (NWDC) imported three emergency generator sets from the United States. But when these were delivered, all three generators were found...

Reviving Industry and Manufacturing

Jan. 10 | We first heard the phrase “SM Economy” used by prominent economist Dr. Benjamin Diokno to describe what the Philippine economy has become, one that is driven by consumption fuelled by dollar remittances of overseas Filipino workers. Gauging by the...

Container Tracking Technology Implementation In the Philippines

Jan. 10 | Happy new year to all our readers! Last month there were again new reports about the ongoing re-assessment by Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon on the use of global positioning system (GPS) and GPS-equipped barrier seals as “the mandatory” technology...

2011 & 2012
By IKE CASTILLO

Jan. 3 | Almost exactly a year ago, we had a guest columnist. He was then the new President of Fast Logistics and, very appropriately, he wrote about TPLs (entitled 3PL’s Next Level of Value Proposition to the Customer) For this issue, we have him again as guest...