The General Santos City Port Complex is located in Tambler, General Santos City in South Cotabato. The Fish Port covers an area of 11 hectares and is a facility for the unloading and marketing of marine products both for local and foreign markets, Harbor operations which include maintenance and repair of fish vessels; and Processing and Refrigeration activities. The General Santos Fish Port is the nation’s second largest fish port after Navotas. The operationalization of the GSFPC is considered of great importance to the East Asian Growth Area(EAGA) as it is envisioned to be a major fishing post-harvest project in Mindanao area. GSFPC boast complete six -35°C cold storage with a 300 MT capacity each, 4- tons/day brine freezer; a 60 tonner ice plant and a 758 meters of landing/preparation area.
The Fish Port Complex includes four market halls, a fish container storage yard and a maintenance shop. The operation of GSFPC paved the way for bigger production and high quality products which is now haven for big and small fish producers/processors. With the expansion of General Santos City Fish Port Complex, the growing fishing industry in the city will be served with utmost efficiency. The expansion includes a belt conveyor fish sorting system with ancillary cargo-handling, weight bridge and telescopic boom crane, municipal fish landing wharf and a market hall and an off-site development for fisheries and related activities which will be leased to cooperatives and other interested private individual for fish processing, ice and cold storage plant, contact freezer, e.g. fencing, road pavement, drainage and water reservoir.
Visitors are welcome at the fish port. One has to sign first the log book at the main gate of the fish port. Then I was asked to proceed to the Food Safety Compliance Unit office (FSCU) where I had to rent a pair of white boots. All the workers in the fish port wear white boots and visitors are likewise asked to do so. Twenty pesos was the rental operated by a cooperative. Then a security guard was assigned to me as my tourist guide. There are three market areas in the port. Market one is for the delivery of the tuna fish, market 2 and 3 are for small fishes with market two for domestic sales and market 3 for canning. The people were very respectful and even where the tuna where being weighed, they would give way for picture taking with the visitor.
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