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Tuesday, August 07, 2018

These Are Some of the Speedy Trains and Railway Projects In The Philippines

Railways have been always proven as the main factor in determining and assuring the fast flow of commerce and trade for ages. The economy and financial progress of countries all over the world greatly depend on how fast they can transport commodities and services throughout the country and its neighbors.
Up to this present time, railways are still playing its great role in many progressive countries in different continents.
In the Philippines, Duterte administration’s Build Build Build program referred to as the “golden age of infrastructure”, started construction of the nation’s first subway system including a number of railway projects.

These projects include Philippine National Railways (PNR) North Rail, PNR South Rail, the Luzon Spine Expressway and Mindanao Rail. The Build Build Build projects which include all of these has an estimated cost of P3.6 trillion which is expected to raise the contribution of infrastructure spending to GDP (gross domestic product) from 5.4 % in 2017 to 7.4% in 2022.

PNR North Rail, which will spend about P225 million, extending to 100 kilometers connecting Manila’s Tutuban Station to Pampanga’s Clark International Airport. The Tutuban-Clark journey that will last for about 55 minutes is expected to service around 35,000 passengers everyday.

PNR South Rail, which will connect Manila with the Bicol region, will be made of two stretches. The first stretch, from Manila to Los Banos - a distance of 75kms – will be able to accommodate up to 400,000 passengers daily upon its completion in 2022.

The Luzon Spine Expressway is a more ambitious undertaking, for it will start in La Union and end in the Bicol region. It will encompass road projects that are already underway – including the project that will link NLEX (the North Luzon Expressway)and SLEX (the South Luzon Expressway). When the Luzon Spine Expressway is completed, travel time between La Union and the Bicol region will be reduced to under 12 hours.

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Mindanao Rail will be a colossal project. For one thing, there is the distance that it will cover: the 2,000 miles between Tagum and the cities of Davao and Digos. For another, there is the project’s price tag: P32 billion. Expected to be completed in 2021, Mindanao Rail will be able to carry 117,000 passengers daily. The travel time between Tagum and Digos will be reduced to just an hour.

These railways and road projects are ambitious but they will do much to increase for the economic development in their coverage areas. Mindanao Rail, in particular, is set to operate in an area that badly needs boosting economic activities.

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However, it's completion target which is expected by 2021is nearly impossible and ambitious.

Will the Build Build Build program be able to beat their due date?

Only four years left in President Duterte’s term. Will the next president carry on with these projects? That is the big question now.

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Sunday, April 01, 2018

TESDA Provides Training For Returning OFWs

Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is urging returning overseas Filipino workers (OFW) to take the opportunity to be trained and improve their skills in construction, information technology, and business management fields to be able to increase their chances of getting hired and find local jobs so that they would not need to leave the country for work anymore. They will be conducting training in the aforementioned fields this coming April 5-6 in all TESDA Branches nationwide.

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Saudi Arabia: Hiring Of Expat Workers Will be Tighter Starting September 3, 2017

The Saudi government implemented the NITAQAT system which aims to reduce the number of unemployment among Saudi citizens due to hiring of expat workers with a great margin of cost to the saudi companies and firms. This coming September, the saudi government will further tighten the hiring of foreign workers to reduce local unemployment rate from the current 12% to the target 9%.

To solve the unemployment problem within the Kingdom, the Saudi government will tighten the hiring of expat workers to force the local companies to hire Saudi locals.

Stricter implementation of the Nitaqat system or Saudization which started last year, (more intense than the implementation at the start of Nitaqat system on 2011), is said to help in economic reforms and solve the growing problem of unemployment among Saudi citizens. The aim is to reduce it from the present 12.1% to 9% by 2020.

The new rule would affect 12 million expats working in the Kingdom including Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) which comprises the largest percentage of the total 10 million OFWs worldwide.

Most of them doing the jobs shunned by Saudi locals. Jobs that are more dangerous, harder and has lower salary rate.

Initially implemented on 2011, the Nitaqat System has a grading system based on the companies' local-expat workers ratio. Companies who hire more Saudi locals are favored to hire expat workers and they are more likely to get expat working visa approval easily as they belong to the higher category. The companies which fall to the lower category will be fined.

Construction firms employing between 500 to 2,999 people has to have 100% from the previous 16% employed Saudis to hit the platinum mark, the highest category.To be under green category, they should meet the 10% required ratio from the previously percentage of only 6% .

In the retail sector, big companies with existing rating of 35 % should hit 100%, and the smaller ones with 24% must have 35% rating according to the new policy.

60 industries in Saudi Arabia will be included among sectors that will be hit by the tighten rule.

Presently, there are many Saudi locals that are now working as cashiers and salespersons at the retail shops-- jobs that the locals shunned before. The Kingdom needs more people to work in construction sector but few Saudis are qualified and willing to do the job.

The approval of the stricter policy came from Saudi Labor Minister Ali bin Nasser Al-Ghafis and will be fully implemented starting September 3, 2017.

Sources: Saudia Post, Reuters Africa

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