Alino is new SBMA Chairman and Administrator

MANILA – After months of speculation and waiting by the business community, businessman Eduardo Aliño emerged as the new chairman and administrator of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA).
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. chose Aliño who took his oath as the new SBMA head before him in a ceremony at the Malacañan Palace in Manila on Friday, Communications Secretary Cheloy Garafil said in a statement.
“President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. sworn in businessman Eduardo Aliño on Friday as administrator of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority,” Garafil said.
The SBMA serves as the government’s operating and implementing arm for the development of the Subic Bay Freeport into a self-sustaining tourism, industrial, commercial, financial, and investment center to generate employment opportunities.
Aliño replaced former SBMA administrator Jonathan Tan who will assume a new post at the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).
Garafil said Tan was also sworn in on Friday as DILG undersecretary.
Aliño is the chair of the Subic Bay Yacht Club, as well as president and chairperson of the S.T.A.R. Group of Companies.
He is also the president and chairperson of Subic Bay Freeport Grain Terminal Services, Inc. and Mega Equipment International Corp., among other posts.
Tan, on the other hand, served as mayor of Pandan, Antique from 2010 to 2019. (PNA)