La Campana Fabrica de Tabacos, one of the country’s oldest family-owned enterprises, marked its 80th anniversary last night with a forward-looking message from family head Caesar Wongchuking.
The port features an 82-meter-long jetty with a 14-meter draft, capable of handling vessels of up to 10,000 deadweight tons. Its pier has a load-bearing capacity of three tons per square meter.
Tobacco magnate Alexander Dy Wongchuking — who helped grow a small cigarette firm into one of the country’s largest, lost it in the wake of a multibillion peso tax controversy, and subsequently started the recovery and transformation of his family’s business empire — passed away on August 17, 2024. He was 68.