The Philippine Star

ICTSI adds $25 M for working capital

- – Louella Desiderio

Internatio­nal Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) is allocating $25 million as additional working capital requiremen­ts for expansion projects next year.

In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, “the board of directors of ICTSI approved and authorized the appropriat­ion of a portion of ICTSI’s unappropri­ated retained earnings in the amount of $25 million for additional working capital requiremen­ts of its continuing domestic and foreign expansion projects in 2018.”

In particular, the amount would be used to fund the constructi­on of Berth 7 at the Manila Internatio­nal Container Terminal.

Part of the amount would also be used for the expansion of the port of Manzanillo in Mexico.

ICTSI holds the concession for the developmen­t and operation of the second specialize­d container terminal at the port in Mexico.

Also being funded next year is the expansion of Puerto Cortés in Honduras.

ICTSI holds the contract for the design, financing, constructi­on, maintenanc­e, operation and exploitati­on of the specialize­d container and general cargo terminal of Puerto Cortés for a period of 29 years.

Another project to be funded is the expansion of port of Umm Qasr in Iraq.

ICTSI has a contract with the General Company for ports of Iraq for the operation, developmen­t and expansion of container facilities in the port of Umm Qasr.

Establishe­d in 1988 in Manila, ICTSI is involved in the business of port developmen­t, management and operations.

Its portfolio of terminals and projects spans developed and emerging market economies in the Asia-Pacific, the Americas, and Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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