DHL eyeing Manila airport ecozone

DHL wants the Philippines government to declare part of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) as a special economic zone where businesses will be entitled to various incentives. DHL Worldwide Express (Philippines), Inc. aims to convert a property close to the airport into an economic zone, but “it is not big enough to qualify” under Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) rules.

Because of this legal limitation, authorities are considering various options, first of which is to combine an airport lot owned by the Manila International Airport Administration (MIAA) and the DHL property.

The combined property will then be annexed to an existing private economic zone near the airport.