Palompon Port Zone Jurisdiction EO 144

PPA is mandated to establish, develop, regulate, manage, and operate a rationalized national port system supporting trade and national development.
Port zone delineation under PPA aims to redirect and reorganize port administration for full development of port districts.
The Port of Palompon in Palompon, Leyte is declared to be one of the country’s major and busiest ports.
The order is issued to define the Palompon port zone for planning and development of necessary port facilities to support regional shipping trade demands.

The territorial jurisdiction of the Port of Palompon, located in the Municipality of Palompon, Province of Leyte, is delineated and established in Section 1.
The boundary is established by a survey description beginning at point marked 1 on the plan, defined as N. 00 deg. 24a2 E., 302.29 m. from BLLM No. 1, Palompon Cadastre, followed by successive courses to points 2 through 21 and then returning to the point of beginning.
The delineated area covers TWO HUNDRED TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE (202,155) SQUARE METERS, more or less.
The delineation is treated as the defined “port of Palompon” territorial jurisdiction for purposes of administration under the order.

The Palompon Port zone, as delineated in Section 1, is placed under the administrative jurisdiction of the PPA (Section 2).
PPA must implement a program for proper zoning, planning, development and utilization of the port.
PPA’s implementation must be consistent with the regional industrial plans of the government.

All issuances, orders, rules, and regulations, or parts thereof, inconsistent with Executive Order No. 144 are repealed, amended, or modified accordingly (Section 3).
If any provision of Executive Order No. 144 is declared invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining provisions not affected continue to remain valid and subsisting (Section 4).