ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Board of Investments in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BOI-ARMM) on Thursday said the establishment of the trilateral maritime patrol (TMP) arrangement between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines will boost business confidence in ARMM.

“This [TMP] is an important development for the ARMM because people from our island provinces have been doing cross-border trade since time immemorial and even before there were borders to cross,” Ishak Mastura, chairperson of the BOI-ARMM, said in a statement.

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