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PFDA BOD, Top Management visit PFDA-LFPC, rehabilitation project at 90% completion

 

1As part of a nationwide monitoring around several ongoing infrastructure projects for the fisheries sector, members of the Philippine Fisheries Development Authority (PFDA) Board of Directors (BOD) and Top Management visited the PFDA – Lucena Fish Port Complex (PFDA-LFPC) to conduct an ocular inspection on its ongoing rehabilitation program, on March 3, 2022. 

According to the latest data from the PFDA – Technical Services Department, the redevelopment of the PFDA-LFPC is almost 90% completed. Despite the recent devastation of powerful typhoons and dangers brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the PFDA-LFPC continues to work round the clock to unveil a new and improved fish port to all its clients and stakeholders in the months to come.

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The visiting team inspected various project sites in the port, including its Cold Storage, Multi-purpose Pier 1, Market Hall, Ice Crusher stalls, Commercial Building, Alpha Agri Aqua Mechanical and Marine Inc., and San Pedro Shipyard Corporation.

Among the BOD members who visited the port were the Department of Agriculture (DA) Undersecretary for Agri-Industrialization and Fisheries Ms. Cheryl Marie Natividad-Caballero, NFA Administrator Atty. Judy Carol Dansal, and Department of Public Works and Highways Undersecretary for Technical Services and Regional Operations in Region IV-B, VI, and VII Engr. Maximo Carvajal. 

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Also part of the visiting team were PFDA officials led by General Manager Atty. Glen A. Pangapalan, Assistant General Manager Ms. Iris R. de Vera, Technical Services Department Manager Engr. Danilo A. Axalan, Corporate Board Secretary Atty. Jose A. Ruiz III, Administrative Services Department Manager Atty. Edward M. Campos, Corporate Planning and MIS Department Officer-in-Charge Ms. Gina J. Reyes, Operations Services Department Manager Mr. Eric M. Sims, PFDA-LFPC Port Manager Mr. Custodio L. Balaoing Jr., and PFDA – Navotas Fish Port Complex Port Manager Ms. Luz P. Ortiz.

(Mark Angelo N. Perez – Public Information Division with report and photos from Genesis Bernaldez – PFDA-LFPC)