ICTSI Rio, Tora Group launch multimodal service
International Container Terminal Services, Inc.’s Brazilian subsidiary ICTSI Rio Brasil and the Tora Group, one of the largest logistics solutions providers in the country, have launched a new service for consolidated import cargos bound for Betim in Minas Gerais.
Designed to cater to all industry segments, the service handles different cargo types ranging from manufactured products to raw materials for transport under customs transit declaration to Tora’s Customs Industrial Logistics Center (CLIA) in Betim.
“Tora and ICTSI offer solidity to the cargo transport market, always innovating to meet customer needs. With integrated management, the service is carried out through multimodal transport, with the railroad as a safer modal and with a major direct impact on CO2 reduction,” said André Lemos Tavares, ICTSI Rio Commercial Manager.
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Months into his presidency in 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte announced a foreign policy pivot to Beijing, as he shored up to $24 billion (P1.2 trillion) in funding pledges from China.
The initial list consisted of 26 big-ticket projects and was supposedly a display of greater confidence in the bilateral relations between Manila and Beijing.
This included: 1.) the Subic-Clark railway project by the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) and China Harbour Engineering Co., 2.) the Bonifacio Global City-Ninoy Aquino International Airport Segment of the Metro Manila Bus Rapid Transit-EDSA project by the BCDA and China Road and Bridge Corp., 3.) Safe and smart city projects for the BCDA by the BCDA and Huawei Technologies, and, 4.) Transportation and logistics infrastructure at Sangley Point by Cavitex Holdings, International Container Terminal Services, Inc., and China Harbour Engineering, among others, most of which have n
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The paper says there are public spaces that are vacant, open, and ready for quick occupancy for vaccinations without the wholesale decimation of trees.
A Filipino receives a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine inside a vaccination facility in Metro Manila on May 13, 2021.PHOTO: EPA-EFE
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Nograles made an assurance that the mega vaccination center would be built in the government property in Parañaque City without harming the trees.
“Wala naman matatamaan na mga puno dyan (No trees will be affected there),” Nograles said in a statement Thursday, May 13.
“When drawings were being made to identify which site ang paglalagyan ng temporary vaccination mega site, talagang sinikap nila hanapin ang pinaka-feasible area na wala namang tatamaan na mga puno (where the temporary vaccination mega site will be built, they really strived to find the most feasible area where no trees will be affected),” he said.
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A BUSINESS process outsourcing (BPO) workers group said the industry’s workers need to be bumped up the vaccine priority list, noting that its workers remain excluded from the A4 category, which is entitled to inoculation starting next month.
The BPO Industry Employees Network (BIEN) said that workers in the outsourcing sector remain at risk for contracting the virus because many works on site. Essential workers in the A4 vaccination priority group could have access to vaccines by June, the Health department said.
“BPO workers do not work face to face with our clients but it doesn’t mean we are immune from the virus especially those who are working onsite. Not all clients and accounts (allow) work at home arrangements,” BIEN Vice-President for Externals Sarah Prestoza said in a statement Thursday.