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GENERAL SANTOS FISHPORT COMPLEX
The construction of General Santos
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.
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Aerial view of the General Santos Fishport Complex. |
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. |
 Tuna
meat grading |
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REFRIGERATION
FACILITIES |
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Ice Making Plant |
60 tons/day |
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Ice Storage |
60 tons/day |
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Ice Crusher |
20 tons/hour |
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Cold Storage, -35°C |
1,500 tons (6 x 250 tons) |
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Contact Freezer, -45°C (4 units) |
288 kg./cycle/3-4 hr./unit |
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Air Blast |
14 tons/day |
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Brine Freezer |
50 tons/day |
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BUILDINGFACILITIES |
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Fish Market (3 units) |
6,000 sq.m. |
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Refrigeration Building |
7,000 sq.m. |
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Maintenance Shop |
360 sq.m. |
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Administrative Building |
420 sq.m. |
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Net Mending Shed(4 units) |
160 sq.m. |
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Public Toilets |
120 sq.m. |
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Fresh Water Pump House |
19.36 sq.m. |
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Fire Pump House |
12.00 sq.m. |
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Sea Water Pump House |
19.04. sq.m. |
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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, 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.
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Unloading yellow fin
tuna at the fishport complex |
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Skipjack Tuna for
processing at canning plants |
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Indeed, These salient special features
of the General Santos 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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Docked fishing vessels |
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