New Logistics & Aircraft Hub in the Philippines

A Kuwaiti firm will develop a hub in the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) complex, the main international airport in the Philippines. Singapore Airlines Engineering Company (SIAEC) will also invest for its project to set up a world-class aircraft repair facility at DMIA complex. The Global Gateway Logistics Park will be established by the Kuwait Gulf and Link (KGL), according to Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC) President and CEO Victor Jose I. Luciano who is set to sign the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Kuwait firm today during the inauguration of DMIAs Expanded Terminal. The KGL project 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. SIAEC of Singapore will also sign an MOU for the setting up of an MRO facility at DMIA. 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. 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. The large facility will be the center of MRO for 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.