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SUBIC BAY FREEPORT— Even as travel restrictions were imposed by some countries due to the emergence of the latest Covid-19 variant Omicron, the repatriation of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will continue at the Subic airport here until the yearend, Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) officials confirmed on Sunday. For the…

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — Taking advantage of a declared holiday for an intensive national vaccine rollout, hundreds of residents from communities around the Subic Bay Freeport queued from early morning at the Ayala Mall Harbor Point here in the first day of the government’s three-day “Bayanihan Bakunahan” vaccination program. SBMA…

Subic Bay Freeport—The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) on Friday signed an agreement to put up a border control facility for the full inspection of fresh and frozen agri-fishery products entering the country through the Subic Bay Freeport Zone. SBMA Chairman and Administrator Wilma…

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT - The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) has approved new investment proposals worth a total of PHP16.2 billion, reasserting this freeport's claim as one of the biggest business destinations in the country. SBMA chair and administrator Wilma T. Eisma said on Monday the new investments are expected to create a total of 72,722 new jobs in the freeport zone. The new business proposals, she noted, were made by 40 companies that sought registration as Subic business locato...

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—New investment commitments approved by the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) in the third quarter of this year reached P16.2 billion, as Subic made a comeback as a preferred business destination following the easing of Covid-19 restrictions here. A total of 40 companies that registered their businesses from…

GLOBAL GATEWAY. The use of Subic Bay International Airport (SBIA) as an alternate port of entry for the government's OFW Repatriation Program since July this year has resulted in increased international aircraft and passenger movements, as well as improved income for the airport. In the third quarter of 2021 alone, the OFW flights had provided the Subic airport PHP1.6 million in direct income, as well as PHP218.7 million in income for Subic hotels.(File photo by SBIA) SUBIC BAY FREEPORT - Th...

Subic Bay Freeport—While some companies here were forced to scale down their operations due to the pandemic, a number of firms continued with their usual business and had even managed to expand their operations. Last Friday, Taiwanese investors here inaugurated the Subic Bay Gateway Park-Food Services, Inc. (SBGP-FSI), a two-story…

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—You really can’t take your eyes off that giant lighted pineapple display at the Subic Bay Yacht Club when you pass along Rizal Highway, Subic’s main stretch of malls and restaurants that takes you from the end of Tipo Road from Manila to Kalaklan Gate going to Zambales.…

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—Some P15 million worth of fresh vegetables shipped from China were confiscated here on Thursday for violation of import regulations on fresh produce. The shipment was initially flagged on October 13 by authorities here for non-compliance with the approved sanitary and phytosanitary import clearance (SPS-IC) on temperature requirement…

OFW repatriation program yields P96-M income for Subic hotels