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Iloilo City on Panay is the major city located on the strait with Buenavista and Jordan, both on Guimaras, immediately across the strait from the city. The Iloilo River empties into the strait. Pump boat ferries cross every few minutes from Iloilo City to Guimaras and vice versa. Ships doing business with the Port of Iloilo often moor in the ...
SRNH signage in Dumaguete, showing directions and distances to major cities and ports. The Philippine Nautical Highway System, also the Road Roll-on/Roll-off Terminal System (RRTS) [1] or simply the RoRo System, is an integrated network of highway and vehicular ferry routes which forms the backbone of a nationwide vehicle transport system in the Philippines.
M/V Filipinas Cebu: IMO number: 9048562: Ferry: 1993 2727 77.37 m (253.8 ft) 14.00 m (45.93 ft) She was built in 1993 by Naikai Zosen in Setoda, Japan. CSLI acquired her in 2007 from Ise Bay Ferry or Isewan (Ise-wan) Ferry in Japan, where she was known as the Mikawa Maru. She is the first ship with a computerized engine monitoring system of ...
The strait is a major sea-lane connecting Cebu City on the strait's northern end with port cities in the south such as Dumaguete in Negros Oriental and Cagayan de Oro in Northern Mindanao. Mactan Island, on the northern end of the strait, has Mactan–Cebu International Airport, one of the major airports in the country.
Note: In September 2012, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III signed Administrative Order No. 29, mandating that all government agencies use the name "West Philippine Sea" to refer to the parts of the South China Sea within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone, and tasked the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) to use the name in official maps.
Roll-on/roll-off ferry service, or RO-RO, is available between Iloilo City and Guimaras, while the RO-RO to Negros departs from Dumangas, Iloilo, 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of Iloilo City. In 2017 statistics record, the port ranks third in terms of ship calls, with 11,853 recorded, fourth in cargo throughput, totaling 491,719 million ...
2GO Travel or 2GO Sea Solutions, also known simply as 2GO, is a ferry company based in Manila, Philippines, the shipping arm of 2GO Group, and the only remaining passenger cargo ferry company operating to and from Manila to Visayas and Mindanao, with its hubs located in Pier 4 at the Manila North Harbor and Batangas International Port.
The vessel, which arrived from Iloilo City with 155 passengers and 18 crew members, was approaching the port around 2 PM when it encountered engine trouble. 14 of the 155 passengers of Ocean Jet 7 fastcraft were injured after it rammed into the pier apron of Bacolod Real Estate Development Corp. (Bredco) port in Bacolod City Thursday afternoon.