{"id":425,"date":"2018-11-07T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2018\/11\/07\/davao-port-development-still-under-discussion\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:44:35","slug":"davao-port-development-still-under-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/asia\/davao-port-development-still-under-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Davao port development still under discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Voice of America<\/em> reported that China is exploring ways to build new infrastructure in the city as a link in its Belt and Road Initiative for expanding Chinese trade in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>The radio network reported that Mr Wang said that Sino-Philippine economic co-operation can \u201cexpand to new areas, including projects of the Belt and Road Initiative\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA rehab of Davao\u2019s deepwater but otherwise small, ramshackle port would increase business for the 1.6m-person city that anchors a resource-rich but largely impoverished southern island,\u201d <em>Voice of America<\/em> claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChinese shippers could use Davao as an import-export base and call there along the way to countries further south.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Christian de Guzman, vice president and senior credit officer with Moody\u2019s in Singapore, Davao port development could be connected to the city\u2019s island of Mindanao previously being a recipient of Chinese investments related to the extraction of mineral resources (basically mining).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jay Batongbacal, an international maritime affairs professor at the University of the Philippines, suggested that imports as exports could be sent through Davao.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough it\u2019s a major port compared to Manila, it\u2019s less busy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Orr, Business and Law professor at Deakin University in Australia, said: \u201cThe southern port development plan in Davao is interesting because it\u2019s part of the Philippine plans to encourage more Chinese investment, but it comes at a time when the Philippines is quite uncomfortable with the military activities and build-up in the Spratly Islands immediately off [the coast].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Development of a port in Davao City in the Philippines has been discussed in light of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi\u2019s visit to the city in late October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}