SAY WHAT you will about the unconventional ways of the Duterte administration, but at least one conglomerate is happy about how things are moving along. Six years after putting its proposal on the table, Metro Pacific Investment…
THE CONSTRUCTION of a bridge that will link Bonifacio Global City to the Ortigas business district is one of the urgent measures to be undertaken by the Duterte administration to ease deteriorating traffic conditions in Metro Manila,…
MANILA — The contractor for the Skyway Stage 3 project (SS3) has started installing beams on the columns along Osmeña highway on the side of the Buendia flyover. For the three-month duration of this activity, all northbound…
BIG LOCAL and foreign conglomerates are taking a closer look at a massive railway line linking key cities in Mindanao, a “high priority” project of the Duterte administration, despite scant details released so far. Top officials of…
Manuel V. Pangilinan-led Metro Pacific Investments Corp. finally bagged an elevated “connector road” expressway project that will link the northern and southern portions of Metro Manila following delays that spanned an entire administration, a government official said.…
The Duterte administration’s plan to jack up infrastructure spending to up to 7 percent of the economy by 2022 would bring about a “golden age of infrastructure” in the next six years, Budget Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno…
CONGLOMERATE San Miguel Corp. has obtained full control of the Metro Railway Transit (MRT) 7 project by buying out the 49 percent stake held by businessman Salvador Zamora II for $100 million. Through its wholly owned subsidiary…
THE NEW transportation secretary is backing a revamp of the rules for public-private partnership (PPP) projects in a bid to speed up the implementation process. The PPP program was a cornerstone initiative of the Aquino administration. Its…
The state-run operator of Clark International Airport in Pampanga backed plans for new railway lines linking the gateway to Metro Manila and other parts of Luzon. Clark International Airport Corp. issued a statement Thursday saying it had…
IT’S BEEN six years of hits and misses for infrastructure projects under the term of President Aquino. The outgoing administration made big promises to address the country’s infrastructure backlog—some of these fulfilled but a great deal more…
