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In November 1991, the corporation acquired its third vessel, the MV St. Gabriel, a steel-hulled 30-ton capacity cargo boat due to the strong demand for the smaller cargo vessel in the trading operation of the mother company. In January 1992, the company expanded into the cargo/passenger shipping business with the purchase of a 175 gross-ton ...
The lazarette or lazaret (sometimes lazaretto) of a boat is an area near or aft of the cockpit. The word is similar to and probably derived from lazaretto. A lazarette is usually a storage locker used for gear or equipment a sailor or boatswain would use around the decks on a sailing vessel. [1] [2] [3]
SunStar Cebu, formerly stylized as Sun•Star Cebu (formerly Sun•Star Daily), is a community newspaper in Cebu City, the Philippines. It is the flagship newspaper of the SunStar network of newspapers and is the leading newspaper in both Metro Cebu and the province of Cebu. It was named Sunstar Daily when it was first founded in November 25 ...
Boat terminologies were used for ranks, place names, and even personal names, even in island interiors. [16] [25] Among the Sama-Bajau people of the southern Philippines, various types of bangka like the djenging and the lepa served as houseboats of nuclear families and often sail together in clan flotillas. [27]
AMTC was incorporated in 1999 in Cebu City, Philippines with the goal of providing end-to-end transport and logistics services as well as shipping services for inter-island passengers and cargoes. [1] [2] That same year, it began operating the Super Shuttle RORO brand of inter-island logistics service using refurbished German RORO vessels.
Montenegro Shipping Lines, Inc. was established on 16 September 1978 by entrepreneur Vicente Leyco Montenegro, Sr., a pioneer in commercial and public transportation in the Philippines. The first route that the company served is from Batangas City to Abra de Ilog , Occidental Mindoro using the boat MV Malaya . [ 1 ]
Port of Cebu (Cebuano: Pantalan sa Sugbo) is a seaport located in Cebu City, Philippines. It serves the Metro Cebu Area and is managed by the Cebu Port Authority. It is the largest domestic port in the Philippines, mostly serving routes in the Visayas and Mindanao .
Paraw (also spelled parao) are various double outrigger sail boats in the Philippines. It is a general term (similar to the term bangka ) and thus can refer to a range of ship types, from small fishing canoes to large merchant lashed-lug plank boats ( balangay or baloto ) with two outriggers ( katig ) propelled by sails (usually a large crab ...