WHEREAS, PPA is mandated to establish, develop, regulate, manage and operate a rationalized national port system in support of trade and national development;

WHEREAS, the delineation and declaration of port zones under PPA aims to redirect and reorganize port administration for the full development of port districts; and

WHEREAS, there is a need to define the Port Zone of Roxas for the planning, development, financing and operation of said Port, with the objective of promoting development through the dispersal of industries and commercial activities throughout the different regions.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BENIGNO S. AQUINO III, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

SECTION 1. Port of Roxas. The territorial jurisdiction of the Port of Roxas situated in Barangay IV, Municipality of Roxas, Province of Palawan, is hereby delineated and established particularly described as follows:

Beginning at a point marked 1 on the plan, located at the midpoint of the existing gate, thence:

DUE WEST	219.00	m.	to point 2;
DUE SOUTH	355.00	m.	to point 3;
DUE WEST	1,000.00	m.	to point 4;
DUE SOUTH	3,000.00	m.	to point 5;
DUE EAST	2.438.00	m.	to point 6;
DUE NORTH	3,000.00	m.	to point 7;
DUE WEST	1,000.00	m.	to point 8;
DUE NORTH	352.50	m.	to point 9;
DUE WEST	215.40	m.	to point 10;
DUE NORTH	2.50	m.	to point 11;
DUE WEST	3.60	m.	to point of beginning;

Comprising a total area of SEVEN MILLION FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED FIFTY ONE (7,468,951.00) SQUARE METERS, more or less.

SECTION 2. PPA Jurisdiction. The Roxas Port Zone, as delineated, is hereby placed under the administrative jurisdiction of the PPA, which shall, consistent with the regional industrial plans of the government, implement a program for the proper zoning, planning, development and utilization of the port.

SECTION 3. Repeal. All issuances, orders, rules and regulations, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this Order are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

SECTION 4. Separability. If any provision of this Order is declared invalid or unconstitutional, the other provisions not affected thereby shall remain valid and subsisting.

SECTION 5. Effectivity. This Order shall take effect immediately upon publication in a newspaper of general circulation.

DONE, in the City of Manila, this 22nd day of January, in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand and Sixteen.


By the President:

(Sgd.) PAQUITO N. OCHOA, JR.
Executive Secretary