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The Zamboanga City Special Economic Zone Authority and Freeport and the Zamboanga City Medical Center (ZCMC) broke ground on a P41.72-million modular logistics building on Oct 14
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The building will give the hospital dedicated storage for documents, supplies and equipment
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It is on a four-hectare site in San Ramon that ZCMC may use for 50 years under a 2022 deal
The Zamboanga City Special Economic Zone Authority and Freeport (ZAMBOECOZONE) and the Zamboanga City Medical Center (ZCMC) have started construction of a P41.72-million modular logistics building in San Ramon, Zamboanga City, ZAMBOECOZONE said.
The groundbreaking took place on Oct 14, 2026. The project covers the building itself, site development and a road network within the authority’s Second Industrial Park. ZAMBOECOZONE said the building will provide dedicated storage for hospital documents, supplies and equipment.
The groundbreaking builds on a Deed of Usufruct signed by ZAMBOECOZONE and ZCMC on Feb 10, 2022. The deed lets ZCMC use a four-hectare property in San Ramon for 50 years to set up a medical logistics hub and other healthcare-support facilities. ZAMBOECOZONE said the site will provide additional storage for medical supplies and equipment, helping the hospital support its operations and meet growing patient demand.
ZAMBOECOZONE Chairman and Administrator Raul M. Regondola attended the ceremony. “Our partnership with ZCMC reflects our belief that development must create lasting benefits for the people,” he said. “By making land available for healthcare-support facilities, ZAMBOECOZONE is helping provide the space and infrastructure needed to strengthen essential public services.”
“This groundbreaking is an important step in turning our agreement into a facility that can support more efficient hospital operations,” Regondola added. “We look forward to continued coordination with the Medical Center as it develops the site for the benefit of patients, healthcare workers and communities across the Zamboanga Peninsula and beyond.”
A wider role for the ecozone
ZAMBOECOZONE said the building is a concrete result of the partnership, turning the allocation of public land into infrastructure for healthcare services. By hosting such projects, it said, the authority is extending its role beyond industrial and investment facilitation to infrastructure with wider public service benefits.
ZAMBOECOZONE is also behind the P14.82-billion San Ramon Newport Project, which PortCalls has covered. It is a planned inland berth, container berth and roll-on/roll-off port on about 23 hectares in Barangay Talisayan, Zamboanga City, which the authority wants to make the first freeport in Mindanao.
