The Philippines has launched a campaign encouraging global aerospace companies to establish facilities at Clark International Airport (CRK) to serve the Asia region and global market.
CRK, located within the Clark Freeport Zone, is an international gateway into the Philippines and the Asia region.
The country is targeting maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) firms, aerospace manufacturers, fixed-based operators (FBO), business aviation companies, original equipment makers (OEMs), cargo airlines, logistics companies, regional and international airlines, and training organizations, among others.
The Philippine Department of Transportation (DOTr), Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), and Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC) have come together for the campaign and are jointly exhibiting at the Philippine Aviation Pavilion at the Singapore Airshow.
Berthaphil Inc., a key stakeholder and pioneer investor and developer in the Clark Freeport and at Clark International Airport, is also part of the Philippine Aviation Pavilion. Berthaphil has over 25 years of experience and is the leading property developer in the Clark Freeport. It has already completed 12 real estate developments there, including the airport’s first bonded warehouse and logistics center.
The company is offering a vacant 10-hectare airfield site, with primary runway access, which is immediately available ‘as is’ or for a build-to-suit project. Berthaphil is now actively promoting this site to aerospace companies around the world.
Clark International Airport is within the Clark Freeport trade zone, so businesses there can receive incentives and favorable tax concessions – up to a 7-year tax holiday and then a 5% corporate income tax rate.
Clark International Airport is an international gateway to Asia and is capable of handling the largest widebody aircraft. The airport has a 3,200m-long (10,500 ft) and 60m-wide (196 ft) primary runway. It also has the tallest air traffic control tower and the newest international airport terminal building in the Philippines with the capacity of up to 80 million passengers per year.
The airport is 43.2 nautical miles (80.0 km; 49.7 miles) northwest of Manila and is accessible to Manila via the Northern Luzon Expressway (NLEX).
A new passenger and cargo rail system is due to open in 2025.
“Besides world-class airport infrastructure, a strategic location within Asia’s burgeoning aviation market, and a favorable business environment; another key strength of CRK as an aerospace center, is the Philippines’ skilled and qualified workforce,” says Berthaphil Inc. chairman, Michael Herman.
“Building a hangar, for example, doesn’t mean you have an MRO business. The key to having a successful MRO organization is having skilled and qualified maintenance engineers and technicians, which is what the Philippines has,” says Herman.
“It is no secret that many of the qualified maintenance engineers and technicians working in places such as Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Middle East are Filipinos. Any aerospace company that establishes itself at Clark has a huge pool of internationally certified talent it can draw up both locally and from overseas,” adds Herman.
MRO organizations that have already established operations at Clark include SIA Engineering, which does airframe maintenance there. There is also Hong Kong’s MetroJet which maintains business jets at Clark. And, it is a global gateway for UPS, DHL, and FedEx.
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