Modern National Food Hub worth P8.5 billion to rise in Clark airport complex
Reggie Vizmanos May 15, 2024 at 09:55 PM
The Clark International Airport Corp. (CIAC) is investing PHP8.5 billion to construct the modern and state-of-the-art Clark National Food Hub, envisioned to become the Philippines’ premium wholesale market and distribution source of high-value and top-quality food products.
The CIAC announced that its President and CEO, Arrey Perez, joined the Philippine delegation to Amsterdam, Netherlands, for a market sensing and observation mission. He discussed with officials from the Netherlands’ Ministry of Agriculture, Nature, and Food Quality the most efficient technology for managing the food hub.
It noted that the Philippine delegation learned from Dutch officials the need for timely delivery of the right product under the right conditions to consumers, necessitating modern, technology-assisted, and cost-efficient logistics management, quality control, and transaction facilitation.
Perez relayed that Dutch Director-General for Foreign Economic Relations Michiel Sweers had said that “The Philippine delegation is in the right place as the Netherlands’ robust agricultural sector and innovative agrologistics capabilities is a center of excellence in trade facilitation and technological innovation in the world.”
The Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural and agriculture-related products and a premier logistics center in Europe, Perez shared.
The Clark National Food Hub, which costs PHP8.5 billion, is a 60-hectare project within the Clark Civil Aviation Complex.
“The National Food Hub is a flagship project in this vision of an Airport City, and is our contribution to national development,” Perez emphasized.
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