President Rodrigo Roa Duterte lead the inauguration of the Php5-billion state-of-the-art Davao International Container Terminal (DICT) Inc. on Friday in Davao del Norte. Located at the 63-hectare Anflo Industrial Estate in Panabo City, DICT offers world-class container terminal facilities and services. It also offers help in ensuring the global competitiveness of Mindanao’s export-grade products such as cavendish banana, pineapple, and rubber.
Formerly known as San Vicente Terminal and Brokerage Services Inc., DICT has a long history in port operations, servicing the stevedoring and arrastre requirements of break bulk shipments of fresh produce like bananas and pineapples at Tagum Agriculture Development Corp. (Tadeco) wharf.
Tadeco is the flagship company of Anflocor and is considered as the global leader in the banana industry in terms of yield per hectare.
Alex Valoria, president and chief executive officer of Anflocor, in an interview on Thursday, said DICT operates in an advanced port facility using the latest terminal operating system (TOS) that powers the efficient movement of incoming and outgoing containerized cargoes.
It is manned by excellent and well-organized staff considered as the finest talents in the industry to provide world-class services to its clients.
Valoria said DICT’s particularly unique knowledge in efficiently handling fresh produce of delicate nature assures its clients that their products maintain the highest quality throughout the movement within the port terminal.
The volume of cargo handled at the DICT is expected to double within the next two years.
Shipping lines that call on DICT include American President Lines, Maersk, CMA CGM, Wan Hai, Advance Container Lines, Regional Container Lines, Pacific International Lines, Mariana Express Lines and Cosco Shipping Lines.
