THE Seafood Processing Plant in Dagupan City is set to be inaugurated on April 16 in time for the Bangus Festival 2010 as scheduled.

Construction work is targeted for completion by the first week of April, according to a Korean overseeing the project, which is funded through a grant from the South Korean government.

Jae Young Choi, project coordinator and manager of Taesan Construction Co., Ltd. of Korea, told Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez last February 22 that they will attempt to finish the project one week earlier or the end of March.

The vice mayor visited the project site last Monday after addressing 50 prospective workers of the Seafood Processing Plant undergoing a five-day training seminar on fish processing at the adjacent National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center.

Choi told newsmen that the construction of the project started in September last year, employing 24 workers, most of them from Sitio Korea in Bonuan Binloc who were relocated, while most of the construction materials used in the project came from Korea.

Equipment for the plant have also started to arrive for installation.

WORKERS

Meanwhile, Fernandez advised the prospective workers being trained by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to prepare for rigorous training because their products must meet export-standards.

“We have to welcome change because the target market for our products is the international community,” she said.

City Planning and Development Coordinator Romeo Rosario said there will be three batches of workers to be trained as the facility needs some 200 workers for a 24-hour operation working on three-shifts.–LM

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