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The Bureau of Corrections is planning to construct an airport and seaport within its Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm in Puerto Princesa, Palawan
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This is in line with the memorandum of agreement signed last January by BuCor with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority to develop the Palawan Mega Economic Zone (PMEZ) within the Iwahig facility
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The airport, which will be 1,000 hectares, will be a hub where passengers can board smaller planes to various areas in Palawan, including El Nido, Coron, Botswanga, and Balapak
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The seaport is aimed to cater to ASEAN and will be part of the Brunei Darussalam–Indonesia–Malaysia–
Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area
The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) is planning to construct an airport and seaport within its Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm in Puerto Princesa, Palawan.
This is in line with the memorandum of agreement (MOA) signed last January by BuCor with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) to develop the Palawan Mega Economic Zone (PMEZ) within the Iwahig facility, BuCor director general Gregorio Pio Catapang, Jr. told media in a recent interview.
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Catapang said they are eyeing the airport, which will be 1,000 hectares, as a hub where passengers can board smaller planes to various areas in Palawan, including El Nido, Coron, Botswanga, and Balapak.
The seaport, meanwhile, is aimed to cater to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and will be part of the Brunei Darussalam–Indonesia–Malaysia–
BIMP-EAGA is an economic complementation of regional areas of the four participating countries and is aimed at stimulating growth within the sub-region.
Relatedly, Catapang said they also plan to purchase within two years an airplane and a ship to transport prisoners and agricultural produce of BuCor facilities.
PEZA last year said they seek to transform 25,000 hectares of the Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm to become an eco-industrial township with a self-sustaining community. It will become the first mega ecozone and the fifth public ecozone in the country. The MOA covers an initial area of more than 2,000 hectares.
Both agencies eye PMEZ to be proclaimed by President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. as an ecozone within the year and be operational before the term of Marcos ends in 2028.
