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Officials saddened over FedEx decision to leave
First posted 04:40pm (Mla time) July 14, 2005
Agence France-Presse
GOVERNMENT officials expressed regret on Thursday after US logistics giant FedEx announced it would close its Asia-Pacific hub in the country and move it to China.
"It is quite unfortunate to hear about the plan of FedEx. We already have the infrastructure projects ready," said Socioeconomic Planning Director Dennis Arroyo.
Arroyo said FedEx's decision came just as the government was improving rail and road links to Subic Bay.
"If that is a business or corporate decision it is unfortunate. We hope they might reconsider. They may have other reasons privy only to themselves," said Transportation Department spokesman Thompson Lantion.
FedEx chairman Frederick Smith announced in Hong Kong on Wednesday that his company would move its regional hub from Subic Bay, a former US naval base north of Manila, to what would be the largest Asia-Pacific air transshipment hub at Guangzhou's Baiyun International Airport.
Smith said the runway at Subic Bay would not be long enough to accommodate its A380 superjumbo jets, although a greater consideration was that its future growth in Asia will be in China.
Both Lantion and Arroyo said their agencies were not informed beforehand about FedEx's decision.
source: http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=43501
with these recent developments, is the Fedex PBA team in peril?
First posted 04:40pm (Mla time) July 14, 2005
Agence France-Presse
GOVERNMENT officials expressed regret on Thursday after US logistics giant FedEx announced it would close its Asia-Pacific hub in the country and move it to China.
"It is quite unfortunate to hear about the plan of FedEx. We already have the infrastructure projects ready," said Socioeconomic Planning Director Dennis Arroyo.
Arroyo said FedEx's decision came just as the government was improving rail and road links to Subic Bay.
"If that is a business or corporate decision it is unfortunate. We hope they might reconsider. They may have other reasons privy only to themselves," said Transportation Department spokesman Thompson Lantion.
FedEx chairman Frederick Smith announced in Hong Kong on Wednesday that his company would move its regional hub from Subic Bay, a former US naval base north of Manila, to what would be the largest Asia-Pacific air transshipment hub at Guangzhou's Baiyun International Airport.
Smith said the runway at Subic Bay would not be long enough to accommodate its A380 superjumbo jets, although a greater consideration was that its future growth in Asia will be in China.
Both Lantion and Arroyo said their agencies were not informed beforehand about FedEx's decision.
source: http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=43501
with these recent developments, is the Fedex PBA team in peril?
Comments
its always nice to see people who play politics get bitten by karma.
but fedex per se is not the bad guy. it'd be sad to see them go pa rin.
but lina deserves this 100000%!
*what goes around comes around, what goes up must come down*
ok lang yan, it's time to open the pba doors to new teams.
the linas can concentrate on cycling, football and amateur basketball
they dont need the pba when they decide to leave the league
they run the bap and have the sole authority in sending national teams
Halaw ba yan sa Private I kagabi?
Will the Linas be able to sustain their BAP cause?
Let's wait for the next columns of the known BAP supporters--once they change their tunes we will know BAP is in its last throes.
Of course, we all know the inevitable happened and the Lakers folded up after the 2001 MBA season only to re-surface as the FedEx Express in PBA 2002. Their PBA foray is of course another long story worthy of multiple threads.
Notice the similarity these days? FedEx openly goes against the PBA-PBFI stand by continuing to support the whims and caprices of the discredited Chinese BAP. :grrr:
It just may be a sound business decision considering that:
1. Cost of labor and utilities is a lot lower in China than in the Philippines;
2. China's infrastructure is better, newer and bigger in terms of road networks, bridges, airports, ports, etc.
3. Proximity to other Asian countries.
But, I agree with what the others said about karma. I hope Lina deserves to get ruined for life.
Coach Ramos cited his failure to comply with the company policy of using all the players on the bench and other reasons why he quit in the letter submitted to team manager Angelito A. Alvarez. He was the Express' fourth coach in its three and a half years of existence after Frederick Pumaren, Bonifacio Garcia and Jose Lipa.
Appointed at the start of the just-concluded PBA Fiesta Conference won by San Miguel Beer, Coach Ramos steered the Express to its best elimination round finish in franchise history when they finished in Fifth Place.
No replacement has been named.
he follows the linas instructions to the letter
wonder how anthony s will react once he is formally named
he'll again list the *ehem* achievements of coach tam and why fedex should really get their heads checked.
its called connections... same thing that wynne arboleda has to get all those pg minutes from fedex
sinong hindi magagalit? ikaw ang head coach ng team tapus biglang BAM!
kahit ako magagalit talaga
for me tama si zanarkland.. its not because of the contradicting style of coach bong and fedex's philosophy of using all players in a game. bakit yun laguna lakers? fedex backed din sila yet they sit other players out.
anthony s, prepare yourself to see multi titled coaching genius johnny tam in the PBA! hahaha!
Is Wynne Arboleda the FedEx version of Triple H?
Nung narinig ko yang resignation na yan, mukhang si Johnny Tam"bak" na ung papalit, tutal medyo matunog din siya at mabango pa ang pangalan for the team since they placed third in that Hong Kong tournament.
OK lang kung siya maging next FedEx coach para maexpose ung kanyang "coaching genius".