Japanese shipbuilders eyeing Subic.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT Japanese shipbuilders have expressed interest to set up operations in the envisioned 100-hectare shipbuilding hub in the Subic freeport, Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) Chairman Feliciano Salonga said. Salonga reported this upon his arrival from a four-day trade and investment mission in...

Hanjin to invest $ 864 million more to expand shipyard facility in Subic.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT Korea's giant shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC) is set to put an additional $ 864-million investments to expand its shipbuilding capacity in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone. This was bared by HHIC director and general manager Shim Jeong Sup to...

P653-M Zambales road opened; Arroyo leads inauguration.
Byline: JONAS REYES SUBIC BAY FREEPORT -- President Gloria Arroyo was the guest of honor yesterday afternoon at the opening rites for the P653-million Subic-Cawag-Balaybay access road to the shipbuilding complex of Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co. (HHIC). The access road is in fulfillment...

$ 400-M Toledo plant expansion seen to meet future Cebu electricity demand.
A consortium which will expand the existing 100-megawatt Toledo power facility by another 246 MW would need to fork out investment of up to $ 400 million. This was contained in a memorandum of agreement (MOA) signed by the Garcia family's Vivant Corporation which firmed up a...

PEZA targets 15% increase in new investments this year; After posting 60% growth at P133 B in 2007.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT Encouraged by its whopping 60 percent increase in investments in 2007, the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) is setting a 15 percent increase in project registration for 2008 or P153 billion from P133 billion last year. PEZA director-general Lilia B. De Lima...

Modern hospital to rise in Subic.
Byline: RANDY V. DATU IBA, Zambales -- A world-class hospital will soon rise at Redondo Peninsula in Subic, this province. This was revealed last Thursday by Zambales Gov. Amor D. Deloso, who, along with top officials of Korean Eximbank, People and Nature, Medipark Corp., and...

Construction work at $ 2-B Misamis Or shipyard faces snag.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - Construction of the US$ 2-billion shipyard complex in Misamis Oriental may be delayed as acquisition of the 500-hectare lot in Villanueva may face delay as heirs of the Jacinto Group of Companies are not on terms. "It (shipyard construction) may be realized...

Hanjin's Mindanao project hits a snag.
The over $ 1 billion proposed expansion of Korean giant Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC) in Northern Mindanao hits snag following conflict with the local government units. An official source said that the LGUs supposedly hosting the project in the municipalities of Villanueva and Tagoloan in...

Ang woos Fujian gov't as Tarlac industrial site partner.
Byline: Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat Government of Fujian Province and businessman Ramon S. Ang are forming a joint venture for the development of a 500-hectare property into a light industrial economic zone. A source privy to the negotiation said that some officials of the Fujian province have...

The Renaissance shipwrecks from Christianshavn; an archaeological and architectural study of large carvel vessels in Danish waters, 1580-1640.
8785180343 The Renaissance shipwrecks from Christianshavn; an archaeological and architectural study of large carvel vessels in Danish waters, 1580-1640. Lemee, Christian P.P. Viking Ship Museum Roskilde 2006 371 pages $100.00 Hardcover Ships and...