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Website. online.supercat.ph. The SuperCat Fast Ferry Corporation, commonly known as SuperCat, is a shipping company that operates a fleet of high-speed catamarans (HSC) in the Philippines. In 2019, SuperCat was acquired by the Dennis Uy -led Udenna Group through its Chelsea Logistics & Infrastructure Holdings Corp. from the 2GO Group. [1]
Though the term used is the same throughout the Philippines, "bangka" can refer to a very diverse range of boats specific to different regions. [1] Bangka was also spelled as banca, panca, or panga (m. banco, panco, pango) in Spanish. [2][3] It is also known archaically as sakayan (also spelled sacayan).
Pump boat. A pump boat (usually variation as pambot in local languages) is an outrigger canoe (bangka 'boat') native to Southeast Asia powered by a small gasoline or diesel engine. Smaller pump boats might be powered by the sort of small single-cylinder engine used to drive a water pump. Larger ones are often powered by recycled automobile engines.
A motorboat, speedboat or powerboat is a boat that is exclusively powered by an engine. Some motorboats are fitted with inboard engines, others have an outboard motor installed on the rear, containing the internal combustion engine, the gearbox and the propeller in one portable unit. An inboard-outboard contains a hybrid of an inboard and an ...
Vinta hulls are traditionally made from red lawaan wood; while the dowels, ribs, and sometimes parts of the outrigger are made from bakawan wood. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Detail of okil carvings on a vinta stern (c.1920) [ 1 ] Plan, midships section, and lines of a vinta (Doran, 1972) A small Moro vinta (tondaan) from the Philippines (c. 1905) showing the ...
Airboat. An airboat (also known as a planeboat, swamp boat, bayou boat, or fanboat) is a flat-bottomed watercraft propelled by an aircraft-type propeller and powered by either an aircraft or automotive engine. [a] It is commonly used for fishing, hunting, recreation, and ecotourism. Airboats are a common means of transportation in marshy and/or ...
Prior to the 1990s, there were several short-lived ferry operators that provided passenger services along the Pasig River. According to the Metro Manila Urban Transportation Integration Study (MMUTIS) conducted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in March 1999, there was a ferry service that used to operate between the districts of Santa Cruz and Santa Ana in Manila from 1969 ...
A typical small rowboat can cost under US$100, $1,000 for a small speedboat, tens of thousands of dollars for a cruising sailboat, and about $2,000,000 for a Vendée Globe class sailboat. A 25 meters (82 ft) trawler may cost $2.5 million, and a 1,000-person-capacity high-speed passenger ferry can cost in the neighborhood of $50 million.