PPA’s container monitoring system remains grounded

Source: www.manilatimes.net

April 19, 2023

The senators asked about the controversial Trusted Operator Program- Container Registry and Monitoring System (TOP-CRMS) that has undergone halting pressures from several business groups. The said program is a proposed solution of PPA to combat increased incremental cost of transacting in the country’s logistics chain.

One of the objectives of the said program is to prescribe the policy in the registration and monitoring of containers entering and leaving PPA ports including the scheduling, loading, unloading, release and movement of all containers.

Under the Presidential Decree No. 857, PPA is mandated to monitor and manage the entry, exit, re-entry and re-export of containers at PPAadministered ports. “The mandate of the PPA is to ensure the free flowing traffic of containers, of cargo to our ports and we need to monitor, we need to know when the containers will actually be brought back or when they will be coming in to be able to manage the terminals efficiently because the terminals only have a limited space. They may be many number of hectares but always limited,” PPA GM Santiago said.