MANILA: Officials are rushing to refurbish the Polloc Port in Parang, Maguindanao in anticipation of expansion in shipping activities after the replacement of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) with a new Bangsamoro political entity.
The Polloc Port southwest of Maguindanao is the ARMM’s largest seaport, a major export-import transshipment point for consumer goods, farm products and petroleum supply from abroad.
Records obtained from the office of port manager Mimbalawag Mangutara Jr. indicated that despite the security problems that rocked isolated areas in Central Mindanao in 2013 and 2014, the facility generated P24.4 million worth of revenues during the period.
The port earned P11 million in 2014, about 18 percent higher than its P9.4 million income in 2013.
Officials have just facilitated the construction of the port’s perimeter fence encircling a 119-hectare territory and are now rehabilitating its transit shed, power facility and water system.
The port’s mooring bollards and rubber fenders along its berthing sites had been replaced with new ones too.
