Mindanaoatoday.com | Logistics firm declares Oro as Mindanao hub
By: URIEL QUILINGUING
Cagayan de Oro got a validating recognition on Thursday, August 24, when the country’s leader in logistics industry considers her as its Mindanao hub, the official announcement came in time for the Northern Mindanao capital city’s Saint Augustine Feast Day on the 28th this month.
“We’re looking at the (logistic) infrastructure,” Leah Magdamit, 2GO Logistics senior business development manager, said in a briefing with journalists, bloggers, and public relation workers at the Limketkai Luxe, Cagayan de Oro’s tallest and biggest hotel.
Logistic infrastructure consists of the transportation (land, air and sea) and communication infrastructure which enable accessibility and ensure efficient delivery of end-to-end services anywhere in Mindanao.
Magdamit said their company’s services can be categorized into pharma logistics, cold-chain transport and storage, liquid (industrial and food-grade products) transport, and project (construction and installation) logistics.
Their logistics services are facilitated by eight roll-on roll-off-passenger seacrafts and two newly-commissioned vessels (2021) through 17 ports of call nationwide, five of these are in Mindanao.
She said that their company has block service agreements (BSA) with the country’s three passenger airlines; Cebu Pacific, Philippine Airlines, and Air Asia, to make sure the delivery of time-sensitive pharmaceutical products.
There are instances of direct delivery of life-saving medicines to physicians and surgeons, just to make sure these reach their clients need them, without the need for prescriptions and procure them through the drugstores.
Magdamit said their latest multi-temperature transport vans could accommodate a variety of products requiring varying temperatures to preserve their shelf life. This include transporting some 185-million hatching eggs from Northern Mindanao to other places in the country, 80-percent of which to the National Capital Region.
Aside from the Port of Cagayan de Oro, which serves as the gateway to Mindanao, the company’s ports of call include Butuan, Dipolog, Ozamiz, and Zamboanga. On the average, 2GO Logistics’ cargo vessels dock at Macabalan wharf in Cagayan de Oro 10 times in a week, except during bad weather.
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