UK firm takes over FedEx Subic facility
Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) has forged an agreement with UK-based Stratospheric Airship Technologies (SAT) which has committed to invest $ 500 million for aircraft manufacturing by taking over the facilities of logistics giant FedEx, which is leaving Subic Bay freeport to transfer its regional logistics hub to China.
SAT legal counsel Atty. Inky Reyes said that SAT UK Ltd. managing director Bryn Lloyd Williams and SBMA administrator Armand C. Arreza signed the memorandum of agreement last Friday.
According to Reyes, SAT is not going to replace the Asia Pacific hub operations of FedEx but rather transform the facility into an aircraft manufacturing hub. The airships are designed to become communication platforms.
"It is an entirely different operations," Reyes said.
Its facilities will be located in a 20-hectare area adjacent to the FedEx facilities, Reyes said.
"It will not operate as a logistics facility but if there is a company interested to operate like the operations of FedEx we will make adjustments so everybody can be accommodated," Reyes said. The lease contract of FedEx with SBMA will expire in December this year.
This will be SAT’s first entry into the country although but it has operations in Spain, India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.
In a statement, FedEx confirmed that some employees who hold positions that do not support the operations of the Asia Pacific Hub in Subic Bay have been offered an option to relocate to Manila, Hong Kong, Singapore, or China on March 26, 2008.
"We are taking immediate steps to keep as many employees in the FedEx family as possible," the statement said.
During the transition and after the relocation of employees, FedEx operations in the Philippines will operate as normal. FedEx remains committed to providing the best possible services to its customers in the Philippines.
"We are taking immediate steps to keep as many employees in the FedEx family as possible," the statement added.
Affected employees who are not successful applying for other comparable jobs within FedEx or who do not have the opportunity to relocate will be provided a severance payment which is in excess of that required by the labor law in the Philippines.
Since the time FedEx has informed the government of its decision to relocate to Guangzhou, China, the SBMA also started looking for possible replacements.
UPS, another US-based cargo handler worldwide, was reportedly being eyed to replace FedEx but so far has stayed in Clark as its regional base.
SBMA contributes about P180 million a year for SBMA in terms of rentals.
FedEx aside from landing fees.
Its departure means lost of job losses and adversely affect the companies which support FedEx operation in Subic .
FedEx will make its facility in Guangzhou , China as its Asia Pacific hub, which has 80,000 square meters of floor space seated in the 63,000 hectares of land, its biggest facility outside the mainland USA .
Meantime, FedEx will be maintaining its operations in the country through Air 21, nevertheless its transfer means a significant loss to the government as it close its local hub. By BERNIE CAHILES–MAGKILAT - Manila Bulletin
SAT legal counsel Atty. Inky Reyes said that SAT UK Ltd. managing director Bryn Lloyd Williams and SBMA administrator Armand C. Arreza signed the memorandum of agreement last Friday.
According to Reyes, SAT is not going to replace the Asia Pacific hub operations of FedEx but rather transform the facility into an aircraft manufacturing hub. The airships are designed to become communication platforms.
"It is an entirely different operations," Reyes said.
Its facilities will be located in a 20-hectare area adjacent to the FedEx facilities, Reyes said.
"It will not operate as a logistics facility but if there is a company interested to operate like the operations of FedEx we will make adjustments so everybody can be accommodated," Reyes said. The lease contract of FedEx with SBMA will expire in December this year.
This will be SAT’s first entry into the country although but it has operations in Spain, India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.
In a statement, FedEx confirmed that some employees who hold positions that do not support the operations of the Asia Pacific Hub in Subic Bay have been offered an option to relocate to Manila, Hong Kong, Singapore, or China on March 26, 2008.
"We are taking immediate steps to keep as many employees in the FedEx family as possible," the statement said.
During the transition and after the relocation of employees, FedEx operations in the Philippines will operate as normal. FedEx remains committed to providing the best possible services to its customers in the Philippines.
"We are taking immediate steps to keep as many employees in the FedEx family as possible," the statement added.
Affected employees who are not successful applying for other comparable jobs within FedEx or who do not have the opportunity to relocate will be provided a severance payment which is in excess of that required by the labor law in the Philippines.
Since the time FedEx has informed the government of its decision to relocate to Guangzhou, China, the SBMA also started looking for possible replacements.
UPS, another US-based cargo handler worldwide, was reportedly being eyed to replace FedEx but so far has stayed in Clark as its regional base.
SBMA contributes about P180 million a year for SBMA in terms of rentals.
FedEx aside from landing fees.
Its departure means lost of job losses and adversely affect the companies which support FedEx operation in Subic .
FedEx will make its facility in Guangzhou , China as its Asia Pacific hub, which has 80,000 square meters of floor space seated in the 63,000 hectares of land, its biggest facility outside the mainland USA .
Meantime, FedEx will be maintaining its operations in the country through Air 21, nevertheless its transfer means a significant loss to the government as it close its local hub. By BERNIE CAHILES–MAGKILAT - Manila Bulletin
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SAT expects high profit from airship business
Stratospheric Airship Technologies Sdn Bhd (SAT) is expecting to post a profit of US$6 billion from its airship building and related business in Kulim in its first seven years of production.
SAT Managing Director Bryn Williams said the company would, from 2006 to 2013, build 70 StratSat airships for the ASEAN market which could be used as high-altitude surveillance and communications platforms.
“The use of high-altitude unmanned airships to provide communications links is a new trend and has promising prospects in view of the telecommunications industry’s rapid growth,” he told reporters after the signing of Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) between SAT and several companies involved in the airship project.
The other parties which signed the MoUs were Intan Sari Sdn Bhd, Advanced Technologies Group, Qualitair, and M.E.I. Project Engineers Sdn Bhd.
SAT will be investing RM3 billion to build a high-technology airship factory in a new integrated township and commercial park in Kulim.
Ground breaking for the manufacturing facility on a 100-acre site will be held at the end of the month. The first airship is expected to be completed in 2006.
Williams said airships flown in formation, dubbed “constellations,” would be able to complement telecommunications links between ground-based transmitters and orbiting satellites. He said the commercial sector and the military would be the target customers for the airships.
“We have done our research for the ASEAN region and feel that there is a requirement for five to eight airships in Malaysia and 12 in the Philippines,” he added.
SAT’s revenue will come from the sale of airships, the operation of constellations, and the sale of airship payload space as well as of surveillance data collected from airships. SAT may also consider using the manufacturing facility to make airships for passenger transport.
Advanced Technologies Group Director (Sales, Marketing and International Business Development) Gordon Taylor said the StratSat airship concept was developed from the need to address rapid growth of telecommunications traffic on costly geo-stationary satellite systems.
The Britain-based company that provides lighter-than-air aviation technologies, is one of SAT’s technology partners in the airship project.
“The StratSat airships can provide clearer communications link-up with ground-based transmitters as they operate 20km above the earth’s surface compared with satellites which operate higher at 700km,” Taylor said.
The 200-metre-long StratSat airship will use helium for lift and have a payload capacity of 2,000kg. It can remain airborne for five years continuously and has a service life of 15 years.
Adapted from "The Star", 18 March, 2004
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Airship jobs boost planned
Dec 6 2006 Sion Barry, Western Mail
Assembly officials are in talks which could result in Wales becoming the manufacturing centre for a new generation of high altitude airships.
Malaysian company Stratospheric Airship Technologies (SAT) believes it could happen.
The company, in which the Malaysian Government has a minority stake, said it is hoping to start work on its ambitious airship manufacturing facility at RAF St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan next year.
While the project, which promises to create 1,500 jobs in Wales, has its sceptics, SAT is in discussions with the Welsh Assembly Government over its plans.
However, SAT said that its huge airships - up to 200 metres long - would need a new hangar facility at St Athan, as the current unused super hangar, built at a cost of around £80m, is too low.
SAT said its airships would be propelled by helium to 70,000 feet above the earth, offering a cheap alternative to satellite for commercial and military clients.
This could include using them to provide secured broadband coverage, or for surveillance purposes like monitoring levels of deforestation.
SAT's managing director Bryn Williams said the company's move into Europe was part of its expansion strategy, with it already focused on the Asian market through its airship manufacturing project in Malaysia, which it hopes will become operational next year.
Mr Williams said, 'We are currently in discussions with the South African Government who are interested in collaborating with us a view to manufacturing airships there and targeting the African market. However, the choice for us is whether our second market after Asia is focused on Africa or Europe.
'We are looking to make a decision on that before Christmas. We are in discussions with the Assembly and are hoping we can sign a memorandum of understanding - providing they come up with an appropriate commercial proposal.
'It this is not forthcoming we will look to go with the South Africa Government.'
Mr Williams said St Athan - which later this month could be chosen at the location for a 6,000 job MoD-funded military training academy - was ideal for the airship project because of its 'ample space, good security and infrastructure facilities.'
He added, 'At St Athan we would be looking at creating some 1,500 direct jobs, of which about half would be engaged in systems integration, data processing and research and development.
'The work will be sustainable over a 30-year period and will provide a relatively high average remuneration package.'
Subject to approval, Mr Williams said the new hangar at St Athan would take two years to complete, with a view to beginning production of its DOR-15 airships in 2009-10.
The facility, said Mr Williams, could build up to 18 airships a year. He is confident there would be demand from companies and government to lease space to install their equipment in the payloads of airships.
He said,'There is a global thirst for broadband, communications, reconnaissance and surveillance services, particularly those which offer high quality and substantial cost reductions to the satellite alternative.'
A spokesman for the Welsh Assembly Government confirmed it was in discussions with SAT.
However, Welsh aviation expert Martin Evans said SAT would require considerable funding if its project was to succeed. The company says it has secured financial backing of 450 million euros.
'The technology, which is far cheaper than using satellites, has been around for some time, but no one has yet come up with a successful application,' said Mr Evans.
'Airship companies have come and gone and SAT will need substantial funding to ensure it can exploit this technology commercially.'
However, Mr Evans said the project was just the sort of investment Wales needed, particularly if it involved integrating the technology platforms into the airships - something which SAT said it was looking to realise at St Athan.
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Anonymous, at 4/15/2008 5:09 AM
Airship jobs boost planned
Dec 6 2006 Sion Barry, Western Mail
Assembly officials are in talks which could result in Wales becoming the manufacturing centre for a new generation of high altitude airships.
Malaysian company Stratospheric Airship Technologies (SAT) believes it could happen.
The company, in which the Malaysian Government has a minority stake, said it is hoping to start work on its ambitious airship manufacturing facility at RAF St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan next year.
While the project, which promises to create 1,500 jobs in Wales, has its sceptics, SAT is in discussions with the Welsh Assembly Government over its plans.
However, SAT said that its huge airships - up to 200 metres long - would need a new hangar facility at St Athan, as the current unused super hangar, built at a cost of around £80m, is too low.
SAT said its airships would be propelled by helium to 70,000 feet above the earth, offering a cheap alternative to satellite for commercial and military clients.
This could include using them to provide secured broadband coverage, or for surveillance purposes like monitoring levels of deforestation.
SAT's managing director Bryn Williams said the company's move into Europe was part of its expansion strategy, with it already focused on the Asian market through its airship manufacturing project in Malaysia, which it hopes will become operational next year.
Mr Williams said, 'We are currently in discussions with the South African Government who are interested in collaborating with us a view to manufacturing airships there and targeting the African market. However, the choice for us is whether our second market after Asia is focused on Africa or Europe.
'We are looking to make a decision on that before Christmas. We are in discussions with the Assembly and are hoping we can sign a memorandum of understanding - providing they come up with an appropriate commercial proposal.
'It this is not forthcoming we will look to go with the South Africa Government.'
Mr Williams said St Athan - which later this month could be chosen at the location for a 6,000 job MoD-funded military training academy - was ideal for the airship project because of its 'ample space, good security and infrastructure facilities.'
He added, 'At St Athan we would be looking at creating some 1,500 direct jobs, of which about half would be engaged in systems integration, data processing and research and development.
'The work will be sustainable over a 30-year period and will provide a relatively high average remuneration package.'
Subject to approval, Mr Williams said the new hangar at St Athan would take two years to complete, with a view to beginning production of its DOR-15 airships in 2009-10.
The facility, said Mr Williams, could build up to 18 airships a year. He is confident there would be demand from companies and government to lease space to install their equipment in the payloads of airships.
He said,'There is a global thirst for broadband, communications, reconnaissance and surveillance services, particularly those which offer high quality and substantial cost reductions to the satellite alternative.'
A spokesman for the Welsh Assembly Government confirmed it was in discussions with SAT.
However, Welsh aviation expert Martin Evans said SAT would require considerable funding if its project was to succeed. The company says it has secured financial backing of 450 million euros.
'The technology, which is far cheaper than using satellites, has been around for some time, but no one has yet come up with a successful application,' said Mr Evans.
'Airship companies have come and gone and SAT will need substantial funding to ensure it can exploit this technology commercially.'
However, Mr Evans said the project was just the sort of investment Wales needed, particularly if it involved integrating the technology platforms into the airships - something which SAT said it was looking to realise at St Athan.
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