TO:	Philippine Ports Authority

In order to carry out the announced policy of the administration to encourage local industries to start the manufacturing of heavy equipment instead of importing them, and in connection with my directive of December 11, 1981 for the cancellation of the bids for eight (8) Transfer Cranes, four (4) Straddle Carriers and four (4) Container Cranes for the use of the Manila International Port Terminals, Inc (MIPTI), the following instructions are hereby issued for immediate implementation.

1. Amend Section 4.03 of Article IV entitled "Port Facilities and Equipment" of the Memorandum of Agreement between the Philippine Ports Authority and the Manila International Port Terminals, Inc. dated April 1, 1980 to read as follows:
   

   Section 4.03. Port Operations Equipment. - Taking into account the system of container handling in the Port Terminal, it shall be the obligation of MPTI to acquire for its own account and to maintain and operate at its own expense, all container (tango or grantry) cranes, transfer cranes (transtainers) and straddle carriers and other equipment as may be required for the efficient operations of the port.
   

2. In order to attain this objective and so as not to delay the manufacture of the equipment locally, I further, direct the government agencies concerned to extend all possible assistance and cooperation to make this project a success.

Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-two.