September 8, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) is spending P280 million to enhance two ports in Aurora according to efforts to develop transport entry and enhance tourism within the province.
In a sequence of invites to bid, the PPA mentioned it’s in search of contractors to undertake the Dingalan Port Growth and the Casiguran Port Growth and Rehabilitation Tasks.
The PPA is allocating P204.12 million to improve the Port of Dingalan protecting the extension of its pier, building of port operational space and demolition of sheet pile wall.
The company can also be setting apart P75.4 million to rehabilitate and improve the Port of Casiguran. The successful bidder for the contract might be tasked to assemble a port operational space on high of a 4,003-square meter space.
The PPA is giving the contractor 510 days to finish the Dingalan Port Growth Challenge. For the Port of Casiguran, the company needs the civil works completed in 420 days.
The PPA mentioned it’s closing the submissions and opening the bids on Sept. 18 for the Port of Casiguran and on Sept. 30 for the Port of Dingalan.
The PPA’s port works will contribute to public-private initiatives to enhance entry to Aurora by upgrading its current gateways.
Ecozone operator Aurora Pacific Financial Zone and Freeport Authority (APECO) is main the cost to develop entry to the province sitting on the northeastern coast of Luzon.
Final month, APECO opened its airstrip for chartered flights, permitting choose plane to land within the province.
Aurora might be reached by air if the flight is given a one-time allow (OTP) by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP).
Visitors must adjust to the two-week lead time when making use of for an OTP to constitution flights to Aurora. Nonetheless, APECO president and CEO Gil Taway IV needs his company to get a allow from CAAP to function the airstrip for industrial flights.
Aurora is being groomed as a possible enterprise and tourism hub in Central Luzon, and APECO is dressing up the province with new properties to draw buyers and vacationers.
Nonetheless, Aurora is dealing with logistical challenges provided that it’s primarily reached by land, which may take so long as eight hours for guests coming from Manila.
