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'Business groups are up in arms against this latest attempt to presumably put order to dysfunctional ports operations.' Opinion
has permeated into every corner of the edifice where the ports nestle. Urban legend has it that even low-salaried port and customs employees own luxury car brands., port congestion, and humongous traffic in areas where cargo trucks traverse have all chipped off a large chunk of income that the national coffers should have derived from port operations.
The PPA’s objective is undoubtedly lofty, but is it well within its jurisdiction to monitor the movement of containers that pass through international ports handling containerized cargo? Doesn’t the monitoring fall under the mandate of the Cebu Ports Authority, Cagayan Economic Zone Authority, Poro Point Management Corporation, Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, PHIVIDEC Industrial Authority and Regional Ports Management...
According to the manifesto, the “undersigned, in consultation with various stakeholders and port users, vehemently call for the immediate revocation of PPA Administrative Order No.
*PPA disregarded all the foregoing legal requirements and best practices when it issued AO-04-2021 on September 22, 2021. PPA-AO-04-2021 violates the Philippine Competition Act and President Duterte’s Administrative Order No. 44, Series of 2021 Containers are owned by shipping lines, not by importers, they reasoned out, and the use of containers is paid to shipping lines by importers as part of freight costs. Requiring importers to pay PPA “for watching/monitoring containers which do not belong to them, is unwarranted and abusive.”
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