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Arthur Tugade Biography

Arthur Tugade is a Filipino businessman and lawyer from Cagayan. He is the current Secretary of the Department of Transportation after being appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte to replace Joseph Emilio Abaya.

Tugade previously held the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of Clark Development Corporation, an attached agency of the government-owned Bases Conversion and Development Authority under President Benigno Aquino III.

Arthur Tugade Age

Tugade was born on 9 January 1946 in Claveria, Cagayan, Philippine Commonwealth. He is 73 years old as of 2019.

Arthur Tugade Family

Tugade was born to a very poor parent from  Claveria, Cagayan, Francisco Tugade and Lucefina Planta. His parents were both employed at the Public works Department and he was in elementary school when they moved to Sampaloc, Manila.

Arthur Tugade Education

Tugade attended law school the san Beda College of Law where he was classmates with President Rodrigo Duterte. He graduated magna cum laude in 1971. He completed his post-graduate studies at the National University of Singapore under the NUS-Stanford Executive Program in 1985.

Arthur Tugade Marriage

He married Maria Soledad Maddela Tugade.

Arthur Tugade Net Worth

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Arthur Tugade Career

Tugade engaged in private law practice before joining government service. He was a partner at Bengzon, Verano, Tugade and Escolin Law Office. He also pursued a career in global logistics, information technology, tourism and consumer products business serving as chairman and president of several firms, including Transnational Diversified Group, Yusen Air and Sea Services, TDG Asia Corporation, Harmony Organic Farms, and Easycall Communications.

Tugade founded Perry’s Realty, named after his son who died from asthma attack at age 12. The company grew to become Perry’s Holding Corporation which employs more than 350 employees in 10 corporations of the Perry’s Group of Companies which include Transglobal Equipment Leasing, Perry’s Technology, ATP Travel, Perryome, Transglobal Trucking and Transglobal Consolidators, Inc.

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Is Tugade blocking Go-Jek’s entry into the Philippines because of Grab?

(UPDATED) Transportation Assistant Secretary Goddes Libiran says Secretary Arthur Tugade is ‘not a micromanager’

(UPDATED) Is the Department of Transportation (DOTr) deliberately blocking the entry of Indonesian ride-hailing firm Go-Jek in the Philippines?

Quoting a high-ranking government official, a source told Rappler that Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade supposedly said he will “not allow” the entry of Go-Jek in the Philippine market “until Grab recuperates” from its losses.

On Thursday, March 21, Transportation Assistant Secretary Goddes Libiran told Rappler that Tugade does not intervene with LTFRB matters, despite being an attached agency.

“Secretary [Tugade] is not a micromanager. When it comes to matters like that, he lets LTFRB to decide on their own,” Libiran told Rappler.

“Palagi ako kasama ni Secretary [Tugade] sa mga meetings with the road sector, the LTFRB. Pero wala akong natatandaang may sinabi siyang ganyan,” she added.

(I am always with Secretary Tugade during meetings with the road sector, the LTFRB. But I can’t remember a time when he said something like that.)

Libiran said that Go-Jek can still appeal their case directly to the DOTr.

“That’s when the Secretary will intervene,” she said.

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) again rejected Go-Jek’s application as a transportation network company (TNC), through its local subsidiary Velox Technology Philippines, over the same foreign ownership issue.

Go-Jek operates in 66 cities in Indonesia, and has recently expanded to Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is backed by deep-pocketed investors in the tech scene such as Google, Chinese technology giants Tencent and JD.com; as well as Singaporean investment company Temasek.

In a text message to Rappler, LTFRB Chairman Martin Delgra III said that Velox is no longer foreign-owned but “still below the 60-40 requirement.” To qualify as a TNC, it should be 60% Filipino-owned.

In March 2018, Grab bought the Southeast Asia operations of Uber, therefore having a “virtual monopoly” of the industry, as the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) previously said.

Since Uber left, ride-hailing services patrons have complained about unserved bookings from Grab. Drivers also said they don’t receive as much incentives as when the California-based firm was still here.

The acquisition was eventually approved by PCC, but the antitrust body slapped Grab Philippines with a P12-million fine for causing “undue” difficulties to the review.

The PCC again fined Grab P6.5 million for violating its pricing commitments in January.

Will the Philippine government ever allow Go-Jek to operate in the country? Let’s see. – Rappler.com

Inside Track is Rappler’s intelligencer on people, events, places and everything of public interest. It’s a take-off from Newsbreak’s Inside Track section. Contributions are most welcome. Just send bits of information to investigative@rappler.com.

Source: RAPPLER

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