25/08/2025
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24 August 2025 (Sunday)
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We are eager to engage with some of the newly elected and forward-thinking City and Municipal Mayors who were among the first to manifest with PEZA their intentions to establish new ecozones in their respective areas: Naga City Mayor Leni Robredo, Los Baรฑos City Mayor Neil Nocon, San Pablo City Mayor Najie Gapangada, Libon Mayor Mac Sayson, Pamplona Mayor Dennis Imperial, Oroquieta City Mayor Lemuel Acosta, Silang City Mayor Ted Carranza, Leganes Mayor Junjun Jaen, Victoria Mayor Rex Villa Agustin, Pagudpud City Mayor Ralph Benemerito, Digos City Mayor Josef Cagas, and San Andres Mayor Ralph Lim. We certainly welcome these new host LGUs to join the PEZA network of 427 operating ecozones (and counting) all over the country.
The other photo highlights pertain to the PEZA teamโs visits this week to the proposed ecozones in San Andres, Quezon (135 ha), Pamplona, Camarines Sur (60 ha), and Libon, Albay (40 ha) for the conduct of due diligence and consultation meetings with the proponents and stakeholders. These three ecozones are strategically located along the Bicol and Bondoc Peninsulas, fronting the Ragay Gulf โ the third-largest gulf in the Philippines. By providing for port connectivity among San Andres, Pasacao and Pantao ports, this will stimulate regional economic growth as the goods produced and raw materials needed in the ecozones can be facilitated through barge deliveries. Moreover, these ports can serve as vital gateways for domestic and international commerce, tourism, and inter-island transportation.
With the Philippines being regarded as one of the best performing economies in the region, and owing to PEZAโs consistent upward trajectory of investmentsโ we anticipate that more LGUs will embrace the ecozone program to integrate into global value chains, and respond to PEZAโs call of ecozoning the Philippines towards inclusive and sustainable development.
The Philippine economy could be boosted if business activities flourish in the ecozones as well as their linkages in the domestic market. This is where PEZA and host LGUs can collaborate in promoting and facilitating ecozone investments to accelerate our countrywide development.
In pushing for the creation of more ecozones particularly in rural and new growth areas, we urge our partner LGUs to forge an investment code and integrity pledgeโcoupled with digital transformation as well as human resource, infrastructure and local supply chain developmentโto enhance their capacities in attracting more investments into their respective jurisdictions. All these key reforms will factor in as competing LGUs vie to host ecozones and locator industries to generate additional income, jobs, livelihood, and other economic opportunities for their constituents. It is already a proven fact that when ecozones exist in LGUs, it becomes a boon to their community as it generates new ancillary and complimentary MSMEs, service companies and transport service opportunities that each ecozone spurs with its creation. This is an immediate development effect and opportunity where none existed before.
Based on the latest PSA survey of the top 10 performing LGUs in the countryโ in terms of their growth share in GDP and amount of investments that they generateโalmost all of them are hosting economic zones. The bigger the number of ecozones and locator companies in a certain city or municipality, the higher is its level of socio-economic progress as compared to those LGUs that do not host any ecozones.
Recently, we engaged with the BARMM to assist in their own ecozone objectives and committed to guide and facilitate in attracting more investments for the Autonomous Region of Mindanao in particular and the whole of Mindanao in general. To date, we have a total of 34 new and expansion ecozones proclaimed under the current administration contributing P14.7 billion in capital investments.
As we support President Marcos Jr.โs โBagong Pilipinasโ governance and socioeconomic agenda, PEZA remains committed to strengthening its role as a catalyst for growth and innovation towards a transformative economic development. Together with our valued locators and stakeholdersโand in partnership with the DTI, DILG and host LGUsโwe are building globally competitive ecozones that serve as engines of growth and pillars of a resilient Philippine economy.
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