Container monitoring 'deferred indefinitely'

THE board of the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has decided to shelve the implementation of a container monitoring system that port users and business groups claim will only jack up costs and add to bureaucratic inefficiencies.

Just last Friday, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Philippine Multimodal Transport and Logistics Association, Alliance of Concerned Truck Owners and Organizations, Alliance of International Shipping Lines and 14 other stakeholders issued a joint letter calling for the scrapping of PPA Administrative Order 4-2021, which was scheduled for implementation this year.