20 June 2019
San Miguel Corporation hopes to be operating the New Manila International Airport (NMIA) in Bulacan by the end of 2024, according to its top official.
“If no other company puts forth a comparable offer to build one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in our country’s history, Filipinos could be enjoying more than just a world-class airport some five years after its groundbreaking,” says SMC President Ramon S. Ang.
Ang is confident that all requirements will be satisfied soon and they can break ground for the project by the end of 2019.
The Department of Transport (DOTr) said there was no other bidder that bought bidding documents worth 10 million pesos during the conduct of Pre-bid Conference paving the way for SMC to go ahead with its offer.
Ang earlier said he was not expecting any other party to make a bid to challenge his group’s proposal given the size of the investment required and the lack of government subsidy or support agreement.
NMIA will feature four parallel runways and will have eight terminals build in stages, with annual design capacity of more than 100 million when fully completed.
Ang said the new airport terminal will be accessible by expressway via NLEX and R1 (shore expressway) and by airport express train.
The terminal will also be equipped with cutting edge technology including artificial intelligence and facial recognition capabilities that will allow the start of a passenger’s checking in and immigration process as soon as he is recognized by the cameras at the curbside of the airport.
“If you've been to Incheon airport this is the same technology employed by our airport partner in Seoul, South Korea,” says Ang.
Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC) was selected by SMC as the operator of a US$15.7 billion new airport after the corporation concluded a Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) with San Miguel at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo on Nov. 23, 2018.
The airport designer IIAC has said the new airport is configured to be a super-large airport with an annual passenger handling capacity of 100 million with eight passenger terminals and four parallel runways.
The Korean airport operator said phase one of the project will cost SMC US$6.3 billion. No further details were disclosed. SMC inside sources however said the airport is planned to be built in four stages, incrementally increasing airport capacity as the demand grows.
IIAC has not yet officially announced what Phase 1 would include, but that it would cover the passenger terminal and cargo buildings, two parallel runways, a control tower, complete navigational facilities, an administrative building, a transportation Center hub, an integrated operations center, and mandatory government office buildings. SMC will take charge of the access road and the railway system.
IIAC is the operator of Incheon International Airport which is the largest airport in South Korea and one of the busiest airports in the world. It was awarded the Airport of the Year title at the World Airport Awards 11 consecutive times by Airport Council International, and was named the winner of World’s Best Transit Airport in 2019.
All this will be accessible from Metro Manila in less than thirty minutes, via interconnected expressways and rail — including a shoreline expressway that will traverse Manila Bay and head straight to NMIA, according to Ang.
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“If no other company puts forth a comparable offer to build one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in our country’s history, Filipinos could be enjoying more than just a world-class airport some five years after its groundbreaking,” says SMC President Ramon S. Ang.
Ang is confident that all requirements will be satisfied soon and they can break ground for the project by the end of 2019.
The Department of Transport (DOTr) said there was no other bidder that bought bidding documents worth 10 million pesos during the conduct of Pre-bid Conference paving the way for SMC to go ahead with its offer.
Ang earlier said he was not expecting any other party to make a bid to challenge his group’s proposal given the size of the investment required and the lack of government subsidy or support agreement.
NMIA will feature four parallel runways and will have eight terminals build in stages, with annual design capacity of more than 100 million when fully completed.
Ang said the new airport terminal will be accessible by expressway via NLEX and R1 (shore expressway) and by airport express train.
The terminal will also be equipped with cutting edge technology including artificial intelligence and facial recognition capabilities that will allow the start of a passenger’s checking in and immigration process as soon as he is recognized by the cameras at the curbside of the airport.
“If you've been to Incheon airport this is the same technology employed by our airport partner in Seoul, South Korea,” says Ang.
Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC) was selected by SMC as the operator of a US$15.7 billion new airport after the corporation concluded a Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) with San Miguel at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo on Nov. 23, 2018.
The airport designer IIAC has said the new airport is configured to be a super-large airport with an annual passenger handling capacity of 100 million with eight passenger terminals and four parallel runways.
The Korean airport operator said phase one of the project will cost SMC US$6.3 billion. No further details were disclosed. SMC inside sources however said the airport is planned to be built in four stages, incrementally increasing airport capacity as the demand grows.
IIAC has not yet officially announced what Phase 1 would include, but that it would cover the passenger terminal and cargo buildings, two parallel runways, a control tower, complete navigational facilities, an administrative building, a transportation Center hub, an integrated operations center, and mandatory government office buildings. SMC will take charge of the access road and the railway system.
IIAC is the operator of Incheon International Airport which is the largest airport in South Korea and one of the busiest airports in the world. It was awarded the Airport of the Year title at the World Airport Awards 11 consecutive times by Airport Council International, and was named the winner of World’s Best Transit Airport in 2019.
All this will be accessible from Metro Manila in less than thirty minutes, via interconnected expressways and rail — including a shoreline expressway that will traverse Manila Bay and head straight to NMIA, according to Ang.
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In this article, RSA mentioned an 'MRT Loop' which will act as the airport train of NMIA. https://www.philstar.com/business/2019/06/13/1925877/smc-unfazed-dutertes-order-focus-sangley-airport-devt
ReplyDeleteI have a strong feeling that this is the under construction MRT-7 (also owned by SMC) which currently terminates only at San Jose del Monte, Bulacan, rather than a separate airport train line nor a spur line of the PNR NSCR. It will have to be extended all the way westward to close the aforementioned loop. And it will effectively double Line 7's length. This way, it can fulfill RSA's wish that the airport train will reach EDSA since Line 7 terminates at Grand Central Station at North EDSA connected with Line 1, 3 and the future MM Subway. But it will have setbacks, because the stations of Line 7 under construction currently don't have the facilities to accomodate airport passengers, the tracks and signalling are not designed to accomodate airport express trains, and there are no extra tracks and platforms at stations. Although Commonwealth Ave. should be wide enough to accomodate these. Not to mention, it's a longer distance since the line will need to traverse San Jose Del Monte first rather than go directly south from Marilao or Bocaue, as in the PNR NSCR. IMO, I think building a spur line from PNR NSCR should be a more sensible proposal. Another problem here is that Line 7 is powered by third rail electrification (the first in the country) rather than overhead catenary as in Line 1, 2, 3, PNR NSCR and MM Subway. So Line 7 airport trains cannot use the tracks of Line 3 in order to reach deeper into Makati and BGC because they have different power supply, signalling, and rollingstock/platform width. Therefore, maybe they want to build a separate line instead?