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Battles Vs Rising Costs
Mar. 14 | With the onslaught of rising oil prices business mood appears to be resigned, like ‘there’s nothing we can do ‘. The rise in global oil prices is being reflected in a series of increases in prices of local oil products. Logistics and supply...
Latest On e2m AEDS, PEZA Expanded AEDS Implementation
Mar. 6 | As of last Friday, the latest update on the Bureau of Customs electronic-to-mobile Automated Export Declaration System and the Philippine Export Zone Authority Expanded AEDS Implementation is shown below: How Many Automated Export System Are There? This...
PPP No Longer Means Powerpoint Presentation
Mar. 6 | Critics have made a joke of the much vaunted flagship public works program of the Aquino administration called Public-Private-Partnership or PPP. The program did not take off for a year and a half after the initial list of projects was first announced. The...
First General Membership Meeting
Feb. 29 | At the induc-tion of SCMAP officials last Feb. 10, 2012 Presi-dent Ike Castillo promised that 2012 would be different, ending his talk with “But it is going to be Different in 2012!”. Last Feb. 23 SCMAP held its first General Membership Meeting for...
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...
