Feature 2 | SOUTH ASIA Major overhaul needed for Filipino yards
Politicians in the Philippines are looking to kick-start the shipbuilding industry in what some claim is the world’s fourth largest shipbuilding nation. Government support for local yards, however, may not be enough as a government commissioned report highlights major concerns which suggests the authorities are facing a tall order
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fficial statistics can oſten mask a more salient truth. Nowhere is this more true than in the
Philippines which is often called the world’s fourth largest shipbuilder. It is not, however,
just Manila that
is finding its statistics were under scrutiny. The OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published a report into Shipbuilding in the Philippines in November 2013 which placed the country fiſth in the shipbuilding stakes. Te OECD report also suggested that
a new shipyard could be developed in the north at Port Irene, Cagayan Valley which has a 54,000ha business hub of the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA) and “is being primed to be the country’s next world-class shipyard,” says the OECD report. Shipbuilding on a global basis is,
however, in crisis. Following the 2008 economic crash many owners stopped ordering and the collapse of cargo volumes, along with the inevitable increase in cargo capacity as ships ordered before the economic downswing were delivered, has meant that vessel earnings have also taken a turn for the worse.
The Filipino maritime industry needs a root and branch reorganisation says maritime consultant Captain Thomas Wissmann
In this context developing a
shipbuilding industry of your own would be difficult enough, but doing it with an underdeveloped steel industry, a non-existent maritime machinery industry and a maritime administration,
HHIC-Phil has delivered more than 51 ships to clients around the world and was considering whether to build another shipyard in Misamis Oriental, Mindanao. Source OECD.
MARINA, that is considered not fit for purpose, then it is no longer an uphill struggle more a mountain to climb. Maritime consultant Captain Tomas
Wissmann was commissioned by the Philippine Department of Transport & Industry and the European Commission to look into the development of the Filipino shipbuilding industry. His report, which was published in the second half of last year, was damning. Wissmann told The Naval Architect:
“It was a bit of a shock for them to hear the plain truth about yards that are defunct, very poor environmental & HSE standards, as well as a huge managerial deficit in most yards. I assume that they now will assess their approach in a different way.” According to Wissmann one of the main problems for foreign owned yards
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