The Cavite Gateway Terminal (CGT), which privately funded by the International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI), is set to inaugurate the Cavite Gateway Terminal (CGT) in Tanza on November 5.
According to Department of Transportation (DOTr), the CGT is hailed as the first container barge port in the country. The terminal will also be integrated with other major Luzon port facilities for a cost-effective and time-bound access to the Cavite market.
The Cavite Gateway Terminal (CGT) will allow trans-shipment of cargo from international ports in Manila to Cavite via barges and Roll-on Roll Off (RoRo) operations. By moving cargo and people out of the roads and into the waterways, it would decongest traffic in major roads.
In a press statement, Arthur P. Tugade, DOTr Secretary, said, “Matagal na dapat ito. Madalas congested ang mga kalsada na papunta sa mga port, at ito ang magiging solusyon dyan. This project is also proof that when the government and the private sector work together, beautiful things can happen.”
The Cavite barge terminal has a capacity of 115,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), which target to lessened truck trips approximately 140,000 every year.
The terminal is also only 11 kms. away from the Cavite Export Processing Zone Authority (CEPZA), whose users could be ideal clients of the facility. Passenger ferry services from Cavite to Manila and vice-versa will also be made available in the future following discussions between the government and the operator.
The Cavite Gateway Terminal (CGT) construction was started in October 2017 and part of project under the Duterte administration’s Build Build Build Program.