PPA ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 03-93

: Heavy lift cargo refers to a very large and heavy single unit cargo, usually large heavy equipment, with a minimum weight of 5,000 kilograms (five tons), typically discharged or loaded by a heavy lifting derrick, crane, or boom.
: Examples include locomotives, bulldozers, graders, payloaders, transit mixers, and similar large heavy equipment.
: Large machineries (e.g., boilers, generators) and their parts weighing at least five tons are considered heavy lift cargo.
: No, steel products such as hot/cold steel rolls/coils and billets weighing five tons or more are treated as iron and steel products with corresponding cargo handling charges, not as heavy lift cargo.
: Marble slabs or boulders weighing at least five tons are not treated as heavy lift cargo and are assessed with general cargo non-prime commodity handling rates.
: When containerized, cargo handling charges for loaded containers are imposed regardless of whether the cargo weighs five tons or more.
: No, heavy lift charges are exclusive of equipment hire if the vessel's gear is inadequate for stevedoring services.
: All inconsistent PPA Administrative Orders, Memorandum Circulars/Orders, rules and regulations are revoked, repealed, amended, or modified accordingly.
: It took effect fifteen days after its publication in a newspaper of general circulation, following May 18, 1993.