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MANILA
The government is in talks with a Singaporean firm to take over as Ninoy
Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 contractor and undertake the
unfinished portion of the facility.
This, after the government terminated the services of Japanese firm Takenaka
Corp because of unsatisfactory work.
Alfonso Cusi, general manager of the Manila International Airport Authority said
about 20 sub-contractors of Takenaka have formed a consortium to be headed
by the Singaporean group.
”If they are chosen, the price might be lower [than Takenaka's] because we
now remove their profit value as the main contractor,” Cusi said.
CAN, a Takenaka sub-contractor, is among Singapore’s top 50 companies
and has completed big-ticket projects such as the Nanyang Polytechnic
University and the Yangan International Airport.
The group is doing expansion work on the Changi International Airport and
Changi Prison Complex –B in Singapore.
Cusi said the MIAA board headed by Transportation and Communications
Secretary Leandro Mendoza, was “being very careful “ about Takenaka’s
request to finish Terminal 3.
Takenaka recently asked to be allowed to finish the terminal, which has not
been used.
”We have to study it carefully. This is already their third request and it might
amount to nothing again,” he said.
Cusi said that the authority has submitted its proposal to the government.
Airport officials suspended Takenaka as the project’s contractor for refusing to
acknowledge experts’declaration of structural defects in the terminal after a
portion of the ceiling collapsed in March 2006.
Takenaka is a sub-contractor of Philippine International Air Terminal Co, the
consortium that won the contract to build the terminal in the middle of 1990s.
The Supreme Court cancelled the contract in 2004, saying it was frssly
disadvantageous to the government.
MANILA
The government is in talks with a Singaporean firm to take over as Ninoy
Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 contractor and undertake the
unfinished portion of the facility.
This, after the government terminated the services of Japanese firm Takenaka
Corp because of unsatisfactory work.
Alfonso Cusi, general manager of the Manila International Airport Authority said
about 20 sub-contractors of Takenaka have formed a consortium to be headed
by the Singaporean group.
”If they are chosen, the price might be lower [than Takenaka's] because we
now remove their profit value as the main contractor,” Cusi said.
CAN, a Takenaka sub-contractor, is among Singapore’s top 50 companies
and has completed big-ticket projects such as the Nanyang Polytechnic
University and the Yangan International Airport.
The group is doing expansion work on the Changi International Airport and
Changi Prison Complex –B in Singapore.
Cusi said the MIAA board headed by Transportation and Communications
Secretary Leandro Mendoza, was “being very careful “ about Takenaka’s
request to finish Terminal 3.
Takenaka recently asked to be allowed to finish the terminal, which has not
been used.
”We have to study it carefully. This is already their third request and it might
amount to nothing again,” he said.
Cusi said that the authority has submitted its proposal to the government.
Airport officials suspended Takenaka as the project’s contractor for refusing to
acknowledge experts’declaration of structural defects in the terminal after a
portion of the ceiling collapsed in March 2006.
Takenaka is a sub-contractor of Philippine International Air Terminal Co, the
consortium that won the contract to build the terminal in the middle of 1990s.
The Supreme Court cancelled the contract in 2004, saying it was frssly
disadvantageous to the government.
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Remedial
work is being
done to
strengthen the
superstructure
after part of
the ceiling
collapsed in
2006.
work is being
done to
strengthen the
superstructure
after part of
the ceiling
collapsed in
2006.