DMCI eyes 3 more Metro Manila Subway contracts

Engineering and construction contractor D.M. Consunji Inc. (DMCI) is eyeing three more contracts to build the Metro Manila Subway Project.

DMCI and its joint venture partner Nishimatsu Construction Co. Ltd. bagged the P21-billion Contract Package 102 of the subway project. 

It involves construction of the Quezon Avenue Station—located inside the former Manila Seedling Bank, on the corner of EDSA and Quezon Avenue—and the East Avenue Station along V. Luna Avenue, including the connecting tunnels.

“We have an ongoing partnership with foreign companies for certain segments of the subway, but we are waiting for the DOTr’s [Department of Transportation] announcement. We have already won one segment, there’s still three more sections,” DMCI president and CEO Jorge Consunji told reporters in a chance interview.

“We sent our bid for three sections with our foreign partners, but I cannot tell you which packages because we have a Non-Disclosure Agreement,” Consunji said.

Hailed as the “Project of the Century,” the Metro Manila Subway will be the first underground mass transit system in the Philippines.

Funded by the Japanese government, the subway is a 33-kilometer rail line that will stretch from Valenzuela City to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 in Pasay City, reducing travel time between Quezon City and NAIA from one hour and 10 minutes to just 35 minutes.

Once operational, the Metro Manila Subway can accommodate up to 370,000 passengers per day in its first year of operations. — BM, GMA Integrated News