General Santos City, Philippines

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The Modern General Santos City Fish Port Complex(GSFPC)
	The construction of General Santos City Fish Port Complex(GSFPC) was funded by Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund(OECF) of Japan. GSFPC is the nation's second largest fish port after Navotas, and considered the most modern in the country today. The construction started last December 1994 and finished in March 1999

Located at Barangay Tambler, General Santos City, it is a 32-hectar lot owned by the Philippine Fisheries Development Authority(PFDA) The operationalization of the GSFPC is considered of great importance to the East Asian Growth Area(EAGA) as it is envisioned to be a major fishing post-harvest project in Mindanao area. GSFPC boast complete six -35°C cold storage with a 300 MT capacity each, 4- tons/day brine freezer; a 60 tonner ice plant and a 758 meters of landing/preparation area.

BUILDING FACILITIES

Fish Market (3 units)	6,000 sq.m.
Refrigeration Building	7,000 sq.m.
Maintenance Shop	360 sq.m.
Administrative Building	420 sq.m.
Net Mending Shed(4 units)	160 sq.m.
Public Toilets	120 sq.m.
Fresh Water Pump House	19.36 sq.m.
Fire Pump House	12.00 sq.m.
Sea Water Pump House	19.04. sq.m.

It also include 4 market halls, fish container storage yard and maintenance shop among others. The operation of GSFPC paved the way for bigger production and high quality products which is now haven for big and small fish producers/processors. With the expansion of General Santos City Fish Port Complex, the growing fishing industry in the city will be served with utmost efficiency. The expansion includes a belt conveyor fish sorting system with ancillary cargo-handling.

REFRIGERATION FACILITIES

Ice Making Plant	60 tons/day
Ice Storage	60 tons/day
Ice Crusher	20 tons/hour
Cold Storage, -35°C	1,500 tons (6 x 250 ons)
Contact Freezer, -45°C (4 units)	288 kg./cycle/3-4 hr./unit
Air Blast	14 tons/day
Brine Freezer	50 tons/day

e.g., weight bridge and telescopic boom crane, municipal fish landing wharf and a market hall and an off-site development for fisheries and related activities which will be leased to cooperatives and other interested private individual for fish processing, ice and cold storage plant, contact freezer, e.g. fencing, road pavement, drainage and water reservoir.

Indeed, These salient special features of the General Santos City Fish Port Complex could well be competitive with the international fish port facilities catering the ever growing tuna industry of General Santos City.

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