{"id":55234,"date":"2015-07-12T17:17:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T09:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55234"},"modified":"2015-07-12T17:17:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T09:17:18","slug":"pcci-pushes-for-manila-port-skyway-stage-3-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/12\/pcci-pushes-for-manila-port-skyway-stage-3-link\/","title":{"rendered":"PCCI pushes for Manila Port-Skyway Stage 3 link"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_55309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55309\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1-image-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55309\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"Metro Manila SkyWay (roadway-technology.com)\" width=\"620\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1-image-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1-image-1-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Metro Manila SkyWay (roadway-technology.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The country\u2019s largest business organization Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) is pushing for a direct road connection of the Port of Manila to Skyway Stage 3 Project which can ease road congestion in the National Capital Region.<\/p>\n<p>PCCI President Alfredo M. Yao said that since almost half of delivery trucks from the Port of Manila are heading to North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) and South Luzon Expressway (SLEX), an elevated link to these expressways from Manila Port through the Skyway Stage 3 Project will drastically contribute to reducing travel time for delivery trucks as well as easing port and road congestion.<\/p>\n<p>The Skyway Stage 3 Project will connect NLEX and SLEX by 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will give 24\/7 access to trucks and other vehicles travelling along the stretch of North Boulevard and R-10 to the Skyway Stage 3 project,\u201d said Yao.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned that the PCCI wrote to the Toll Regulatory Board Executive Director Edmundo O. Reyes Jr. to consider the direct link of the Port of Manila to Skyway Stage 3 and approve the early implementation of the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur membership is concerned over the repeat of the port congestion last 2014 resulting in business losses amounting to PhP70 billion if no new road infrastructures are put in place in the medium term,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContinuity of business is key to PCCI. By accelerating the movement of raw materials and finished goods to and from the ports, we are certain that this proposed project would increase productivity and propel the growth of our economy,\u201d the PCCI chief added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom our point of view, the so-called port congestion is only the result of the real problem of road congestion,\u201d Yao said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study of the Japan International Cooperation Agency in 2013, the worsening traffic in Metro Manila cost the economy an estimated of PhP140 billion annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The country\u2019s largest business organization Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) is pushing for a direct road &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":55309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,19,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-business","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}