Logistics Park, MRO facilities to rise in DMIA
March 30, 2008

Two multi-billion-peso logistics projects comprising a Logistics Park and a Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility will soon rise in the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) with the signing of agreements on April 4.

CIAC President Victor Jose I. Luciano will sign Memorandum of Agreements (MOAs) with Singapore Airlines Engineering Company (SIAEC) and Kuwait Gulf and Link (KGL) of Kuwait during the inauguration of the expanded passenger terminal of the DMIA.

Luciano said KGL will establish the Global Gateway Logistics Park located at Industrial Estate Five while SIAEC of Singapore will set-up a $100-million, 10-hectare maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility at DMIA.

The KGL project, initially costing about $25,000,000, will be aviation-related and dependent businesses including but not limited to warehousing, distribution, multi-nodal logistics, light manufacturing alongside complementary business operations and facilities to support aviation-related activities within the Civil Aviation Complex of the airport.

KGL will occupy at least 1,250,000 square meters (125 hectares) at the civil aviation complex for the development of the world-class logistics park.

SIAEC, meanwhile, will pour an initial $100 million investment for its project to set up a world-class MRO facility.

SIAEC, a major provider of aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services in the Asia Pacific Region, is part of the Singapore Airlines Group and provides maintenance services to Singapore’s Changi Airport for the more than 60 international carriers including airframe and component overhaul on some of the most advanced widely used commercial aircraft in the world.

SIAEC’s line maintenance support extends to more than 40 countries such as Australia, China, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Luciano said SIAEC is expected to generate 700 jobs in the field of aircraft repair and maintenance, adding that the Singaporean group will construct five large hangars at DMIA for the repair of Boeing and Airbus aircraft.

The MRO will complement the development of a logistics hub and the development of DMIA as envisioned by President Arroyo.

The facility will occupy a 10-hectare property at the DMIA which would be the center of repair, maintenance and overhaul of various wide- and narrow-bodied aircraft such as the Airbus A380—currently the world’s largest aircraft, the Airbus 300 and Boeing 747s and 777s, among others.

SIAEC services at least 80 international carriers and aerospace equipment manufacturers. It has 20 certifications from airworthiness authorities around the world with six hangars and 22 in-house workshops in Singapore which provide a complete MRO services in airframe, component, engine, aircraft conversions and modifications to major airlines from four continents.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will witness the signing of agreements which also coincides with the inauguration of the expanded DMIA Terminal on April 4.