by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Philippines Company Stories, Shipping, Aviation & Logistics
⚡ TL;DRInternational Container Terminal Services began operating one terminal in Manila in 1988 and became one of the world’s significant independent port operators, running terminals across six continents. Its competitive advantage was a willingness to...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Philippines Company Stories, Shipping, Aviation & Logistics
⚡ TL;DRPhilippine Airlines, founded in 1941, is Asia’s oldest continuously operating carrier and has been rebuilt repeatedly — through privatization, the Asian financial crisis, a rehabilitation programme, ownership changes and a formal restructuring...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Philippines Company Stories, Shipping, Aviation & Logistics
⚡ TL;DRCebu Pacific brought low-cost flying to an archipelago where the alternative was a multi-day ferry journey, and in doing so created a domestic air travel market that had not previously existed. It is now the country’s largest carrier by passengers,...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Mining, Agriculture & Resources, Philippines Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRDel Monte Pacific runs one of the world’s largest integrated pineapple operations in Mindanao and holds the Del Monte brand rights across several Asian markets. In 2014 it acquired the much larger United States consumer food business of the same...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Mining, Agriculture & Resources, Philippines Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRThe Philippines replaced rice import quotas with tariffs in 2019, allowing private traders to import freely. Retail rice prices fell, which benefited a hundred million consumers, and farm-gate prices for domestic palay collapsed, which hurt several...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Mining, Agriculture & Resources, Philippines Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRMindanao’s banana and pineapple plantations are among the Philippines’ largest agricultural export earners, supplying Japan, Korea, China and the Middle East. The industry now faces two simultaneous threats: a soil-borne fungal disease that...
