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The Department of Trade and Industry and 2GO Group, Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding to provide micro, small, and medium-enterprises logistics support through the Supply Chain and Logistics Center
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Under the MOU, 2GO will join business-matching events, market linkages, and Logistics Support Desks in DTI Negosyo Centers nationwide to offer entrepreneurs hands-on help to optimize distribution
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The MOU formalizes 2GO’s role in routine operations and crisis response, ensuring goods flow during calamities
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The MOU builds on the commitments made during the launch of DTI’s SCLC
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and 2GO Group, Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to provide micro, small, and medium-enterprises (MSMEs) logistics support through the Supply Chain and Logistics Center (SCLC).
The MOU integrates 2GO into DTI’s official “go-to” logistics network, enhancing SCLS’s services “to tackle high transport costs, unreliable providers, and supply chain gaps for MSMEs,” DTI said in a statement.
Under the MOU, 2GO will join business-matching events, market linkages, and Logistics Support Desks in DTI Negosyo Centers nationwide.
These desks will offer entrepreneurs hands-on help to optimize distribution. DTI will provide coordination and SCLC platform access to foster seamless public-private collaboration.
The MOU builds on the commitments made during the launch of DTI’s SCLC in June last year where 18 supply chain and logistics partners, including 2GO, pledged to provide preferential services, share expertise, and contribute resources to create a more inclusive and resilient logistics ecosystem through the SCLC.
DTI said the MOU formalizes 2GO’s role in routine operations and crisis response, ensuring goods flow during calamities.
The SCLC, which currently has a hotline and online portal, aims to provide a nationwide support system to address logistics concerns and connect MSMEs, as well as importers, exporters, and consumers, to appropriate service providers, potentially reducing transaction cost and enhancing market access.
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“Moving products across a nation of over 7,600 islands is a massive undertaking, and a partnership between the Department of Trade and Industry and 2GO Group, Inc. will ensure goods travel seamlessly from point a to point b,” DTI secretary Cristina Roque said after the signing.
“Access is the key word here,” Roque noted, adding that though SCLC, “we’re giving MSMEs clear lens to see the market.”
Aside from 2GO, FedEx, also a “founding partner” of the SCLC, likewise signed an MOU of partnership with DTI last year.
Other founding partners that signed a pledge of support to the SCLC were Airspeed, Cebu Pacific Cargo, DHL Express Philippines, F2 Logistics, Fast Logistics, Flash Express, Grab, Laguna Gateway Inland Container Terminal, Lalamove, LBC Express, Maersk, Philippine Airlines Cargo, Philippine Multimodal Transport and Logistics Association, Inc.; San Miguel Yamamura Packaging Corp., Supply Chain Management Association of the Philippines, and YelloX Supply Chain Solutions.
DTI undersecretary for Supply Chain and Logistics Group Mary Jean Pacheco earlier said they are open to onboard more service providers as partners of SCLC.
Moving forward, there are plans to include a freight calculator in the portal and create a booking platform, as well as the establishment of a physical SCLC office.
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