Senator Mark Villar on Monday, January 9 commended President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s administration for achieving another milestone as the latter facilitated the launching of the Metro Manila Subway Project's Tunnel Boring Machine. Villar was among other government officials who attended...
Japan believes that the "new dawn for the Philippines' transportation story" is now "on the horizon" as a new subway project that will connect the north and the south of Metro Manila comes into effect. Matsuda Kenichi, Japanese Embassy in the Philippines minister and deputy chief of mission, made...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has assured the public that the government will continue to improve the country's transportation system and invest in it as he believes that having an efficient one has "multiplier effects" on the lives of the people. During the launching of the Metro...
Tunneling on P488.5-B Metro Manila Subway starts today By EMMIE V. ABADILLA Tunneling work on the P488.5-billion Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) started Monday, Jan. 9, as President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. led the launch of the first of six tunnel boring machines (TBM) at the subway's depot in...
Senator Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito has raised concerns that the impending budget cuts in the proposed budget of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) could potentially derail the country’s ongoing railway projects, particularly the North-South Commuter Railway System and the first phase of...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) assured the public that the P488 billion Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP), one of the Philippines’ largest infrastructure projects, will be completed after the historic lowering of the projects's first Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) over the weekend. The...
President Duterte has expressed his gratitude to Japan for its love for the Philippines and for assisting the country in its economic development as if it was part of the Japanese archipelago. President Duterte witnesses the lowering of the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) of the country's first-ever...
Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade, signed Thursday, May 5, the P17.75 BIllion contract for two stations and tunnels of the P488 Billion Metro Manila Subway Phase 1, Contract Package 104 (CP104), with the Tokyu-Tobishima Megawide Joint Venture (TTM-JV). 81748 The CP104...
The pandemic has set back the opening of the P488-billion Metro Manila Subway by three years, to 2025, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) has confirmed. Originally, target start date for partial operations for the subway's first three stations from Valenzuela – Mindanao Avenue Station,...
68389 Mitsubishi Corporation awarded the over €1 billion, approximately over P57.5 billion, contract to design and build the turnkey rail system for the Metro Manila Subway to Thales, in a consortium with Colas Rail (lead) and Egis. Thales will design and deploy its latest generation of...
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez (left foreground) and JICA Chief Representative Azukizawa Eigo (right foreground), joined by (background from left) DOTr Undersecretary Timothy John Batan, Finance Undersecretary Mark Dennis Joven, and Ambassador of Japan to the Philippines KOSHIKAWA Kazuhiko at...
The governments of the Philippines and Japan signed a P112.87 billion loan agreement, the second tranche funding for the construction of the Metro Manila Subway Project, the country's first-ever underground railway. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, on behalf of the Philippine government, and...
