6 firms eye Pasig River ferry service
Inquirer News Service

SIX PRIVATE companies are interested in running ferry services along the Pasig River once the government completes the construction of 13 boat stations from Manila to Marikina City.

Budget Secretary Emilia Boncodin said the national government would finance the construction of the 13 ferry stations, but would leave the ferry operations to the private sector.

Building each station would cost between P3 and P4 million, she said. The government would charge ferry operators a fee each time they dock at the stations. This early, there are plans to put up stations all the way to Laguna Lake.

"We will not repeat the mistakes of the past. The previous ferry projects were designed to fail," said the budget chief. The government is now on its third attempt to revive the ferry system.

Boncodin, Transport Secretary Leandro Mendoza and a representative of Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chair Bayani Fernando signed a memorandum of agreement Wednesday to launch the ystem, one of the priority projects of the Arroyo administration.

"There are six groups interested in the ferry project. But we would know the final list by next month," said Transport Undersecretary Agustin Bengzon.

He said interested parties would have to invest about P5 million for each vesselthat plies the Pasig River.

Mendoza said the government would provide incentives to ferry operators such as exemptions from franchise fees and other charges. The operators could also qualify for import tax and tariff exemption.

Bengzon said the Pasig River ferry stations could be operational by the end of the year.

The stations would be equipped with amenities like air-conditioning, comfortable waiting areas, a ticketing system, scanners and metal detectors, comfort rooms, vendo machines and elevators for the disabled.

Reviving ferry services along the Pasig River would provide an alternative mode of transport and help decongest the traffic-choked roads of Metro Manila.
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from sandrin. :cheers:

now... here goes anything that moves people and their materials, using waterways from rivers to seas.

i hope this will turn out good and prove to be successful. and with that also boost efforts to clean up the Pasig River.

can't wait to see how this works out...!

yeah I hope so... just like the time of the Piso Para Sa Pasig program of Ming Ramos

Thanks for the thread Renell. The Pasig River has been serving Manila even before the Spaniards arrived. It is the vein of Manila.

MANILA (PNA) – Plans are afoot to revive the once-popular ferry service along the Pasig River, and have it operating before the year ends.

In the plan, an initial 17 loading and unloading stations will be constructed along the stretch of the Pasig River and a major tributary, the Marikina River. The cost of constructing one station is estimated at R3 million.

Some 5,000 squatter families situated along the river banks will have to be relocated before the project is started.

Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC) chair Emilia Boncodin, Transportation Secretary Leandro Mendoza and Cesar Lacuna of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) for the 15-year span project.

The ferry service is expected to help decongest Manila megalopolis and achieve some of the goals set by President Arroyo early in her second term, according to MMDA.

The ferry service was in operation during the term of former President Fidel V. Ramos, with then First Lady Amelita Ramos overseeing the histroric river’s rehabilitation. It was a well-patronized service despite the sometimes unpleasant odor emanating from the Pasig’s murky waters.

It saved passengers from the madness of Metro Manila’s vehicular traffic.

Lacuna said the ferry boats to be used are air-conditioned and each is large enough to accommodate from between 50 and 100 passengers. "As such, passengers do not have to worry about being sprayed with foul water as the ferry traverses the Pasig," Lacuna said.

The stations are to be built at the Del Pan Bridge, Jones Bridge, MacArthur Bridge, Arroceros, Nagtahan, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), and Sta. Ana, all in Manila.

The Marcos Bridge and Sta. Elena, in Marikina City will have two platforms each, one in Valenzuela, Poblacion, and Guadalupe in Makati City, Lambingan Bridge and Hulo in Mandaluyong City, and Bambang in Pasig City. The service may be extended to along the Laguna Lake an the Manila Bay areas.

The stations will be equipped with viewing decks and seats for waiting passengers, comfort rooms, closed circuit television and scanners for security, turnstile and ticketing booths, vending machines and telephone booths, and a 24-hour security service. Facilities for the handicapped will also be installed.

The problem on whether the boats could smoothly travel through the garbage-filled river is now being addressed, according to Mendoza. He said the river’s floor is being cleared of sunken derelicts.

"The project to rehabilitate Pasig River is a 15-year program. And despite the limited achievement we have so far made, we are improving the river. At least we’re making sure that endemic creatures in the water are preserved," Lacuna stressed.

Lacuna said that in 2002, the MMDA cleared about 21,000 cubic meters of waste in the Metro’s drainage. Last year, this went down to 13,000 cubic meters. "It means our clearing operation is successful," he said. "This will enable us to build parks along the river banks."

According to Boncodin, projects to make the Pasig River ferry service an alternative mode of transport in Metro Manila failed partly because the propellers of the boats often jammed the vessels.

To date, at least 21 parties have signified joining the bidding for this project.

Boncodin said about 5,000 families situated along the river banks will have to move away and their houses demolished. Their relocation is being coordinated with local government agencies.

The Pasig River is the vein the pumps blood into the Heart of Manila.

Speaking of water based transportations, what about those inter-island ferries and passenger cruise ships? Are there any improvements to those modes of transportation? Or is traveling by air amongst the islands edging out travel by sea. :)

Yes, I want to see a Visayas Inter-island Cruise. From Western Panay (IloIlo, Cebu, Bohol etc.) to Eastern Bicol Mighty Mayon. Central Philippines Islands have alot to offer, we only need more hotels. Travelling by sea more relaxing methinks.

Oh and please revive the Manila Bay-Subic Ferry cruise.

/\ @sandrin, you must have "sea legs," I get queasy when I'm out to sea....I'm a certified "landlubber." :lol:

well... I really hope that Pasig River is revived and life return to it....

I guess the latest development on our inter-island ferries is GMA's Nautical Highway that connects the Batangas City port to Mindoro, Panay, Negros, Cebu, and Mindanao islands.... also I heard before of the development of Manila South Harbor into an international Cruise ship port....

Riding RO-ROs and ferries are indeed convenient but air flight is a lot much faster...

But I'm sure quite a lot of people love to bring their cars from Luzon to some island in Visayas, especially since our rail systems are still on the developing side and I'm sure not everyone loves a bus trip.

/\ @sandrin, you must have "sea legs," I get queasy when I'm out to sea....I'm a certified "landlubber." :lol:
It's only a matter of getting used to. The next time you go to the beach, wear a pair of fins and snorkle and submerged. Float and be one with the movement of the wave. When you ride the Banca, concentrate on the fresh air instead of the wavy movement of the Banca and don't panic.

Shipbuilding: Sailing back to the glory days
Joan Orendain

THE GLORY days of Philippine shipbuilding were in the 16th and 17th centuries, when the country led the rest of the Orient in the seafaring trade.
Three-masted Spanish galleons loaded with treasure, which swashbuckling English pirates plundered, were constructed in Cavite, Iloilo, Pangasinan, Sorsogon, Masbate, Albay, Mindoro and Cebu.
Made of Philippine mahogany, the cannonballs of marauding buccaneers merely bounced off the galleons' hardwood decks.
In modern times, by virtue of geography, we are dependent on ships for domestic and overseas transport, fishing, defense, offshore patrol, customs interdiction, and search and rescue activities.
The demand for ships is great, but most, if not all, of the steel-hulled ships plying our waters are imported, largely as second-hand reconditioned ships.
The boatbuilding industry remains strong, as in the days of yore. Shipwrights still build wooden-hulled boats that provide short-distance transportation services for passengers, and outriggers for fishermen.
There are several local shipyards capable of building steel-hulled vessels, but the domestic demand is limited to small steel-hulled vessels such as barges, tugboats and fishing vessels.
Two companies based in Cebu-Tsuneishi Heavy Industries Inc, and FBMA Babcock Marine Inc.-are successful shipbuilders catering to the export market.
Tsuneishi builds bulk carriers, while the FBMA builds high-speed catamarans. Both are joint venture companies, where the foreign partners provide the technology, experience and access to the global market, while the local partners provide the land, skilled labor and local market access.
Most of the shipbuilding firms in the country are engaged in ship repair, servicing the second hand fleet where they make good returns.
These include firms such as: Keppel Philippines Inc., with shipyards in Batangas and Cebu; Subic Shipyard & Engineering Inc. located in Zambales; and Philippine Iron Construction & Marine Works Inc. in Northern Mindanao.
Largest in the world
South Korea, which has the largest shipbuilding industry in the world, has captured 56.2 percent of the world's new orders for ships.
Their order books over the next two years are full. Japan trails Korea by half at 26.6 percent, and Europe is a poor third at 11.3 percent.
The Philippine picture could change, though, as a few good men work quietly in their government offices to try to make the shipbuilding dream happen.
The lone Philippine delegate to the shipbuilding conferences organized by the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation Special Negotiating Group (OECD-SNG), was Agustin Bengzon, an undersecretary of the Department of Transportation and Communication.
Bengzon attended the conferences to learn how other countries developed their shipbuilding industry.
Special niche
The Philippines, Bengzon learned, could carve out its own market niche in the shipbuilding industry. Also, he found out that European shipyards enjoyed generous grants, government support measures and subsidies.
Our special niche, focusing on building small ships of 5,000 deadweight tons or less, could fly, with government setting policy directions and providing a favorable investment climate.
Bengzon announced the good news at the BIMP-EAGA (or the Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines-East Asean Growth Area) Philippine Exhibition and Conference.
He also discussed shipbuilding opportunities for the region.
In a memo to his boss, Secretary Leandro Mendoza, Bengzon noted that the Philippines needed to craft a policy and an action program to upgrade the country's shipbuilding industry.
Policy paper
Mendoza then directed Bengzon to prioritize the development of the local shipbuilding industry and tasked him to oversee the formulation of a policy paper and action program.
Mendoza's decision was recognized by President Macapagal-Arroyo in her 10-point agenda. The President encouraged the "growth of the national shipbuilding's industry" as a specific project for job and wealth creation.
Bengzon and Vicente T. Suazo Jr., Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) administrator, have started conducting dialogues with shipbuilding companies in the NCR, Iloilo, Cebu and Cagayan de Oro.
The dialogues provided a forum for the comprehensive exchange of ideas-to produce a viable action program.
Bengzon said that recent events have contributed to the development of Philippine shipbuilding.
The existing domestic demand for ships, the availability of local funds, and our shipbuilding capability are determining the shape of the shipbuilding industry, he said.
Huge demand
There is a demand for the following type of vessels:
Roll-On/Roll-Off vessels. Ninety-six are needed for the 48 identified routes along the Ro-Ro Terminal System. The Roll-On/Roll-Off Terminal System is a component of the Development Bank of the Philippines' Sustainable Logistics Development Program (RRTS-SLDP). The SLDP is a collaboration between government and the private sector to bring about cost-effective ways of moving goods and people.
Vessels of various types. At least 120 are needed. The vessels are part of the Philippine Navy's 15-year acquisition program.
Multi-role response vessels. Around 311, ranging in size from 15 to 125 meters and other types of vessels. The vessels will be acquired by the Philippine Coast Guard over a 15-year period.
Allocation
Also, there is a demand for aging domestic merchant and deep sea fishing fleets, where 57 vessels may be over 30 years old and 128 vessels may be up to 26 years old.
To pay for all this, Bengzon cited the DBP allocation of P12 billion for the procurement of Ro-Ro vessels under the RRTS-SLDP.
The DBP, in collaboration with the National Development Corp. has also established the NDC-Maritime Equity Corp., a ship financing facility.
"I commend DBP chair Vitaliano Nañagas II and former Department of Trade and Industry Secretary Cesar Purisima for recognizing the need to establish a ship financing and leasing facility jointly with the NDC to address the financing requirements needed to support the shipbuilding program," Bengzon said.
Given the number of ships to be built and the magnitude of the funding required, more than one financing and leasing firm may be needed to cater to both the public and the private sectors' requirements, he said.
Investors for this new ship financing and leasing company could also come from financial institutions, insurance and fund-management groups, and venture capitalists.
(To be continued)

Yes, I want to see a Visayas Inter-island Cruise. From Western Panay (IloIlo, Cebu, Bohol etc.) to Eastern Bicol Mighty Mayon. Central Philippines Islands have alot to offer, we only need more hotels. Travelling by sea more relaxing methinks.

Oh and please revive the Manila Bay-Subic Ferry cruise.


Sandrin, I really agree with you. The whole Visayan cruise thing would be what that region (and the country) needs. They always say that the downside of the Philippines is that it's not connected (therefore not that united) because of too many islands, right? Well, use technology and all the options out there to fix it! And it would boost tourism. Just look at the Caribbean region. A lot of them have cruises from island countries to islands countries and even cruises in one country itself. And I also agree with your Manila Bay-Subic ferry cruise. I heard about this before but I didn't know that it's not running now. It should be! Especially with all the developments and tourism going on with the Subic area as well as Manila always being a tourist site, there should be a huge ferry back and forth! And Corregidor Island as well.

^ I also hope the ferry service from Manila Bay to Subic Bay will be revived soon like the on-going Pasig River Ferry Service revival.

Our Islands are the best!

"I think it's really nice to go back home" - it's the constant expression of my officemate who recently came back from almost 1 month's vacation in Cavite-Tagaytay-Bulacan. My friend who married a Canadian and now living in Toronto uttered the same phrase.

Air Phil, SuperCat team up to boost interconnectivity
June 16, 2005

Interconnectivity from Manila to Cebu to Ormoc is now seamless with the team-up between an aircraft and fast craft.

Air Philippines and SuperCat Fast Ferry Corporation have recently forged an intermodal connection called Island Program that will make interconnectivity and transfers seamless from Manila to Cebu to Ormoc and back.

Passengers from Manila bound for Cebu and Ormoc may book with either Air Philippines or SuperCat ticketing offices for air, sea and land transfers from airport to seaport under the one-stop-island ticketing scheme.

Air Philippines for the Visayas chief Jay Coching said the tie-up aims to benefit business travelers who make airport-to-port transfers a seamless imperative.

What is integral in this team up is the commonality between aircraft and fast craft, that is, both have speed, interconnectivity and reliability.

Timing and schedule rationalization were crucial in this team up. Air Philippines and SuperCat spare business and tourist travelers common apprehensions of delayed schedules.

SuperCat has been known to establish tie-ups with airlines because it can match with airline benchmarks in safety, reliability and service.

Alright there seems to be plans for a ferry service long time ago... but how about real action? any yet?

bump..

whoah check out what I found, I don't think I've seen it before
http://www.marina.gov.ph/pasigferry/images/location-map.jpg

di ba iyan iyung mga luma na

anyway may nasunog na superferry last month yata

It said "proposed ferry stations." I wonder what happened to the proposal? :dunno:

hope this get push through

I like the idea of ferry system in the Pasig River. It will certainly make Filipinos appreciative the Pasig River more and make them think about cleaning it. Does anybody know if the Pasig River is a tidal river, a non tidal river or both?

well a superferry is a different proposition to a say... a river ferry. For the passengers it's easier to bail out since it's in a river, there's two sides to swim to. i really hope this one gets pushed through, i don't see why it could be NAIA3 complicated. well i don't see why anything could be as complicated as T3

Yes, I want to see a Visayas Inter-island Cruise. From Western Panay (IloIlo, Cebu, Bohol etc.) to Eastern Bicol Mighty Mayon. Central Philippines Islands have alot to offer, we only need more hotels. Travelling by sea more relaxing methinks.

option 1: you can start in Boracay, Aklan(by plane from MLA) then travel by land to Iloilo then to Bacolod City by fastcraft (1hr) then land travel to Dumaguete City (5-6hrs) then fastcraft to Cebu via Tagbilaran City, Bohol(1h:30m tag-ceb, 2h+ dgte-tag). in cebu, you can ride just about any sea vessel to Ormoc/Tacloban City, Leyte. in Leyte, you can ride land transport to samar via San Juanico bridge. i think there's a bus transport to Bicol with the help of a barge. you just had your Island Hopping XP!

option 2: from iloilo you can ride a 12-15hr boat (Trans Asia/Cokaliong) to Cebu. you usually arrive 9am in the morning. from cebu, as usual, you can just go anywhere ^_^.

the visayas islands have the best inter-island transport in the country and it's a fast and cheap way to travel compared to air. before, it used to be air transport but planes are used nowadays if someone needs to be somewhere in less than 8 hours.

FBMA Marine, an Aboitiz fully owned shipbuilding company, stationed on the island of Cebu, seems to be extremly successfull ! it just completed a katamaran super ferry for 1300 pax for the Netherlands, and has taken an order for 2 vessels for an american contractor. please google >Aboitiz FBMA Marine< for more details.
rds. from philpal

I really can't wait for the Pasig River ferry project to push through. This would make people more conscious of the waterfront. Everyone knows that the River links muncipalities in the Metro together yet we don't make the most of it. Hopefully it would help ease traffic off motorways too.

Has anyone here ridden the smaller boats that run along the Pasig?

I've taken boats in Pasig several times but it's not one of those that run along it.
It just crosses to the other side of the river.

I've ridden on the boats, the owner was trying tosell the company because it was losing money.

A very efficient ride I must add. In the end it turned out to be quite the loss maker due to expense of the craft and running cost, plus on rainy days when it was hard to get to boat people did not use it!

I wonder where that ferry planned in SM MoA's masterplan will go.. Corregidor? Other parts of MM?

Subic?

I'm currently undergoing my thesis which is on North Harbor.
Still have a lot to research about so if any of you guys can comment and help me out..it'd be appreciated a lot. gawa din ako thread here about that

Raj's Thesis (http://rajournal.blogspot.com)

I'm a 5th year architecture student from UST currently developing my thesis.

It is an Integrated Passenger Terminal in North Harbor.
any comments and suggestions about the site or the project?

My Thesis Blog (http://rajournal.blogspot.com)

I'd like to introduce a new passenger terminal that will enhance the North Harbor site back to glory.

First of all..the Philippines is an Archipelago. Water plays a major role in this country. Sadly, it is being taken for granted and being left underdeveloped compared to other Land-based transportion. Environmental issues can be discussed comparing different modes of transportation and selecting which provide the least negative effect to the environment.

Also..North Harbor is the country's leading domestic port. this project aims to bring that stature into focus.

Discussion begin!

North Harbor is located in Tondo. Tourists and/or passengers upon hearing that word are usually having second thoughts. Is that also part of your thesis?

Good question. I also want to see the answer :D

Interesting stuff mate :okay: I'll have more of a read on it soon

now before we really get involved, how about some aerial pics and a map of the north harbour complex for a general overview ?

that comment from lochinvar is very straightforward and realistic. tondo has to be included in that renovation and renewal plan. packed together, it will have quite an impact on revitalisation for northern manila. economically it could be a job-mashine for the people of tondo too. now that's probably not exactly what you had in mind, but just think of the changes it could have on the manileros north the pasig !
revitalization of old habours in europe have had quite an impact onto their hinterlands. london's dockyards, hamburg's speicherstadt, amsterdams piers, rotterdams centre harbour. all these projects are of tremendous change for the environment and economy of these cities. just google into the cities websites, and you will find helpful infos for your plan.
philpal

As this is only a thesis, we are not limited to being too much realistic. Although i have to base it to the current situation.

As of Tondo development itself, it is not part of my project scope. I only limited the details of my project to the Passenger terminal itself. But i will portray it's positive effects to the its periphery namely Tondo district. I will have to be able to say that the New terminal will have to be beneficial to Tondo people, but their development itself will have to be handled by other departments.

I will post a site description, pictures and all, soon. Right now we're currently in the space programming aspect of our thesis book..As soon as i have time i will post new things.

Your ideas and comments here will be very helpful to my thesis defense as the inputs you guys provide are those that can only come from experienced people which will add to my thesis advisers'.


Thanks so much for anything guys! ^_^

will update post asap.

I've not been to North Harbor in a long time, before Puting bato was an outcrop with a lot of squatters, now i understand it's part of the container terminal. Most of the piers are controlled by private companies though. I don't they want to use a common one. It's a good idea but may require a lot of pressure for them to use it.

yup, a lot of pressure will be needed for these shipping companies to use the integrated passenger terminal as they have a lot of concerns with it's administration and costs.

i will do my best to address those concerns architecturally (if ever that is possible) but in my thesis, i will "assume" that this passenger terminal is "required' to be occupied by the companies if they still want to stay in North Harbor. This rule is for the overall improvement of the North Harbor and so is required..

that is that as of now..

ragssssssssssss!!!!!!!

rajiris,
if you want to push ahead and be a prosperous architect one day, you should integrate social and economic aspects of the people who will work and live in the vicinity. it´s not just about a building and it´s design. architecture is responsibility. you are automatically forming what a population will do with and around it. if you do not take that under consideration, you are planning for the scrap, ´cause your building will just not have the impact you desire it to have and what it will be built for. integrate this into your thesis, and you will have astonishing results and support from your professors and, most important, in real life later when you practise, from your clients.

to support my "thesis" there is a practiced idiem from real life : you are only as good as your last assignment. your next client will always have a look at what you have built before, and how it is accepted and integrates by the people utilizing it.

RP'S 1ST HIGHWAY
Pasig River ferry project afloat again

First posted 05:20am (Mla time) Sept 25, 2005
By Joan Orendain
Inquirer News Service



Editor's Note: Published on page A1 of the September 25, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer


COMMUTERS to and from key points all over Metro Manila may have a new mode of air-conditioned public transportation next year-the Pasig River Ferry Service.

When fully operational, the ferry service will have at least 10 boats plying Manila's prime waterway to serve a daily minimum of 28,000 passengers, calling on 14 stations in Manila, Makati, Mandaluyong, Pasig and Marikina.

The stations will be located at Plaza Mexico in Intramuros, Escolta, Quezon Bridge, Nagtahan, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), Sta. Ana, Lambingan (all in Manila), Valenzuela (Makati), Hulo (Mandaluyong), Guadalupe (Makati), Bambang (Pasig), Riverbanks Mall, Marcos Bridge East Bank and Marikina Bridge East Bank (all in Marikina).

The Pasig River was the Philippines' first highway long before the Spaniards' arrival. A brief revival of the ferry system some years ago failed due to infrastructure deficiencies.

The project team and prospective bidders have agreed in consultative meetings to use twin-hulled catamarans, which they say will be more stable and provide a wider deck and greater comfort than a single-hulled boat.

The boats are estimated to cost from P8 to P10 million each, depending on their size. They will be locally manufactured of fiber-reinforced plastic, and will each carry from 50 to 100 passengers.

February opening

Project proponents say they are pushing hard for a soft opening of the ferry service mid-February next year, initially with five stations-Plaza Mexico, PUP, Lambingan, Hulo and Guadalupe-and a minimum of five ferry boats.

[A research into PDI archives shows that a previous attempt to launch a Metro ferry transport system failed because of complaints that the stench of the Pasig at the time clung to the clothes of passengers. A banca-type ferry system also did not work because the boats were too small and too low in the water so that passengers could smell the polluted water. - PDI Research].

The new ferry project is a tripartite effort of the Department of Transportation and Communications, the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC), and the Metro Manila Development Authority.

The integration of relevant government institutions resolves the usual obstacle of the private sector having to deal with a number of government agencies. The ferry service operator who wins the bid to operate it will only have to deal with one entity.

Public sector agencies and representatives from the private sector comprise the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission, the project team that will oversee the ferry service.

The team is composed of Transportation Undersecretary Agustin R. Bengzon as chair, with MMDA Undersecretary Cesar Lacuna, PRRC Executive Director Bingle Gutierrez and private sector representative Chito Macapagal of Unilever General Manager for Corporate Development as members.

The technical working group assisting the project team has Philippine Coast Guard Commander Ronilo Hermes Bacolod as chair and Regina Reyes Rara as legal adviser.

Proponents are confident that the revival of the river ferry service will succeed, this time.

All-weather stations

"Ferry rates have been deregulated. PRRC is constructing the ferry stations and has improved the environment of the Pasig River, and the ferry operator will only have to deal with one group for its operation," according to Bengzon.

The provision of all-weather and air-conditioned ferry stations is intended to resolve a major infrastructure hurdle. The previous ferry service did not provide any stations at all.

With PRRC constructing the ferry stations, which are estimated to cost from P6 to P7 million each, the ferry service operator can focus its investment on building the ferry boats.

Funds for building the ferry stations are sourced from an Asian Development Bank loan earmarked for the rehabilitation of the Pasig. The stations will be rented out to whichever ferry service operator wins the bid.

The Plaza Mexico station will have "a heritage architecture" while other ferry stations will sport a modern design reflecting their locality and historical importance. They will also have ticket booths, comfort rooms and security features.

Adjusting to the tides

All landing platforms are floating pontoons that will adjust to changes in the tide levels for passenger safety and convenience.

Extensive consultations were conducted with prospective bidders for both the construction of the terminals and the operation of the ferry service.

"We wanted to provide a balance between regulation and development," Bengzon says. "We don't want to straightjacket the proponents, but at the same time, offer guidelines to ensure a safe and efficient operation."

The deregulated rates allowing the ferry service operator to price services based on the market situation will ensure the viability of the operation.

The Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) has designated the Pasig River to be a missionary route. As such, only one operator will be selected to run the ferry service for five years, free of competition.

Fighting pollution

Existing river crossings will be allowed to continue operating but Marina will cease approving new applications in the interest of safety.

The Pasig River's environmental issues are also being addressed by the PRRC together with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the MMDA through a program intended to prevent river pollution and improper disposal of waste.

The team is also relocating informal settlers on the river banks and building linear parks on the cleared areas.

"The implementation of the Pasig River Ferry Service is proceeding smoothly," according to Bengzon. "Bidding of five stations have been initiated, of which three have been awarded... It is expected that the winning bid for the operation of the service will be determined by the end of September."

i hope they resettle the illegal settlers and clean up the river then this would be great.

I hear you. I hope there will be volunteers for the Pasig River clean-up drive like the one happened at Manila Bay. Not only that it will spread awareness on the rehabilitation project, but it will also create buzz on the initial operation of the ferry.

i hope they resettle the illegal settlers

I think this is going to be a drawn out, bloody struggle. I think if they commission them to be operators or employees of government-regulated river taxis or gondola rides as well as riverside "karihans" or eateries (like the ones during the Spanish colonial times) and make their shelters more pleasing-looking to the eye, at the same time, provide proper plumbing that does not make the river a direct dumping receptable of their human wastes, then it solves the problem of uprooting them from where they have been living for ages and providing them with livelihood to improve their quality of lives. Then, they will become invested in preserving the cleanliness and beauty of the Pasig River.

I think the illegal settlers need to be relocated because of flooding which can endanger their lives (such as destruction of property and health hazard on an annual basis) and make the flooding even worst. Most of them live along the floodway which is prone to flooding during rainy season as the name suggest. The floodway is the area next to the river that should be reserved or kept free of obstruction to allow floodwaters to move downstream.
Just last week, a newschannel featured the flooded homes of the illegal settlers at Pasig River and the reporter even warned them of the dangers waiting to happen. Hence, they should be relocated.

Poor pasig. She's been used and abused too long.

Developing a water-based transpo system plying the Pasig River route is good news! I hope that once implemented, the transpo system is sustained.

:master: let us praise the lord for this project that will bless manilenos of something that we've been ranting about:D great stuff this

they could definitely use it for tourism purposes as well, i just hope they make use of that!

It'll take time to make it look great but that's ok, great cities don't happen overnight anyway. There really aren't that many settlers along the banks of the Pasig itself. But there are a lot of factories and many used to dump their waste in it. That's been stopped by now but waste effluent from drainage and the like is still there and most likely will be there for quite a while.

Anyway it's a good trip. I've taken in before , quite fast, it just really stinks sometimes and when it rains the passengers really disappear.

Aussie-Pinoy group bags Pasig River ferry franchise
By Marianne V. Go
The Philippine Star 09/29/2005

The Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC), the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) and the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) have awarded the franchise to operate the 17-kilometer Pasig River ferry service to Nautical Transport Services Corp., an Australian-Filipino joint venture.

In yesterday’s open bidding held at the MMDA offices in Makati, only three firms actually submitted bids for the Pasig River ferry service operation. Aside from Nautical Transport, the two other entities were MetroStar Ferry Corp. and the joint venture of PropMech and Mt. Samat.

Meanwhile, two other proponents – Montenegro Shipping and Ocean Bay Ferry Corp. – decided not to bid.

While Ocean Bay has entered into a technical agreement with MetroStar Ferry wherein Ocean Bay would provide technical expertise and support it opted not to submit a bid since it had earlier been negotiating with the previous Pasig River service operator, Star Ferry, to take over the ferry operation, its spokesman Lorenzo Gadon said.

However, before the negotiations could be concluded, Gadon said the MMDA, PRRC and DOTC decided to call for a new bidding.

In a highly transparent process, the bids of the three firms were opened and assessed first for their eligibility, then for their technical compliance, and lastly for the lowest fare quotation.

All three passed the eligibility process but MetroStar and Prop Mech/Mt. Samat failed to hurdle compliance stage.

MetroStar Ferry failed the technical and financial compliance requirements since it was not able to secure the necessary bank/financial support.

PropMech/Mt. Samat also failed in the technical compliance stage as it was not able to secure the necessary Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) certification.

Mt. Samat Ferry operates a ferry service from the Folk Arts complex to Corregidor, Bataan. It teamed up with PropMech which distributes Caterpillar brand machineries.

Only Nautical Transport Services, a joint venture between an Australian ferry service firm SydneySide Cruises and Filipino partners Eduardo Bondad, Atlanta Industrial and Penta Capital Investments, was able to reach the third stage with a fare quotation of P225 per kilometer, inclusive of terminal fee.

The prospective Pasig River operator would be given an exclusive contract to operate the ferry service for a period of five years to ensure its profitability.

The operator, likewise, would be free to set a "market-driven" fare.

The PRRC would provide support in the form of a terminal/station for which the operator would have to pay a still unspecified terminal fee.

The PRRC is spending between P7 million to P10 million for each of the 15 proposed terminals.

The PRRC is rehabilitating the Pasig River through private funds and a $75-million loan from the Asian Development Bank.

The PRRC foresees a ferry service that would involve 10 boats with a capacity of anywhere from 60 to 150 passengers and can provide at least 28,000 passenger trips or roundtrips.

^^ I'm now getting excited about this. At least it was an Aussie Pinoy. (must have been reading our threads @Renell :))

YES!!! but what does 'market-driven' fare means? i was thinking the P225/km fare would be shared by all the passengers? thanks

^^ so what would be the stop over, u know im talking about like the lrt has carriedo & baclaran.

YES!!! but what does 'market-driven' fare means? i was thinking the P225/km fare would be shared by all the passengers? thanks

Don't you think the market should dictate what the fare should be?

They showed the stops in the Inqyirer yesterday. Just google it.

I thin it's like 2.5 per km or something from the article. The fare is regulated like all public transport.

yeah i forgot where i saw the ferry stations along pasig river..

i'm just wondering, some parts of the pasig river is really really shallow even in reainy seasons. what more in summer?

so there should be a lot of dredging? hmmm...my classmate is doing a thesis, the design of the ferry terminals there. she's going to place one major terminal at manila bay, another in laguna de bay, and an example of mini-terminals along the way.

The overhead span of the pasig is at least 11 (or is it 14) feet at the highest tide If I'm not mistaken. The draft is the same in the main channel, dredging is done on a regular basis.

Don't you think the market should dictate what the fare should be?
well, what i meant was how does it work? that news article mentioned about a P225/km fare so i just thought that. nway, i've read from another newspaper that if benchmarked with aircon buses the fare should not exceed P2/km based on the current minimum rate of P10 for the first 5 kms. so as bustero mentioned the fare will be regulated just the same as other modes of public transport.:)

Anyway it's a good trip. I've taken in before , quite fast, it just really stinks sometimes and when it rains the passengers really disappear.

therefore it should be those closed things with airconditioning. I know the ones in Amsterdam are closed... the London ones too..

I think the new ones are closed. If I remember correctly even the old ones are closed, the problem with the old ones was that the terminals were just open air platforms, I think withs the Sydney guys this will be a better system. Great news for us all!

can't post more yet as of now, im currently doing my thesis book.
Will post more infos and further project development asap. Thanks for all comments. :)

As i was sitting and wondering about things, while browsing thru architectural magazines and stuffs..something dawned upon me which i think can be a start of coming up with a real design philosophy and a design concept.

here's what i thought of. this is not final, as it will be changing as i get more grip of what i want.


Overall Philosophy: Life is merely a circulation in which God is the Architect. We as subjects, are bound to follow life's design. But also by having creative minds, we have the capacity to customize life, to innovate, and to interact with the structure.

Design Philosophy: Beauty + Strength + Function = 75% ARCHITECTURE
+ PEOPLE
= 100 % Architecture
A structure for me can only be identified as architecture if there are people using it. And sticking with my overall philosophy, people defines the structure. People can customize and innovate upon a given space, and thus giving life to the structure and defining it as an Architecture.

Design Concept:

" ARCHIPELAGIC WAVES " : Promoting unity in the Islands of the Philippine Archipelago through water architecture.

** my design will evoke the rolling waves of the sea. i will post some sketches soon. at the same time, the Archipelagic state of the philippines will be emphasized in my project, and a way of connecting these separated islands through the most viable means, water transportation.
In a smaller scale though, in my site development plan, i will try to emphasize this idea of being separated but connected by a means of transportation. As the Passenger terminal will only be located in one pier (pier2), people will have to be shuttled to the other piers in loading and unloading. A proper circulation will be the solution.

isn't it that there is a Cruise Line port that was built in South Harbor?....

anyways.. if the North Harbor be re-developed with a good ferry terminal.. it would be good I guess..

isn't it that there is a Cruise Line port that was built in South Harbor?....

anyways.. if the North Harbor be re-developed with a good ferry terminal.. it would be good I guess..


No it isn;t a cruise line port in south harbor. It is to be recalled that south harbor is utilized only for International CARGO ships and that North Harbor is for domestic (both cargo and passenger ferry).

But due to inefficiency of the current North harbor, the SuperFerry lines transferred their passenger terminal at the south harbor's pier 15. It is the "Eva-Macapagal Super Terminal". It is for ferry passengers and not for cruise lines.

My project proposal of a passenger terminal isn' that of a normal passenger terminal like that of the Eva-Macapagal.

North Harbor will be re-evaluated, the current positions of the shipping lines in their respective piers will have to be changed. All shipping lines with passengers will be arranged nearer to the passenger terminal building which will be placed in Pier 2 reclamation, while the other shipping lines that are purely cargo ni nature will have to move towards the uppermost piers. This will organize the circulation minimizing traffic and keeping pedestrians safer.

does anyone have updates on the ongoing subic port modernization project ? possibly some pics or aerials on construction ?

Crucial to the rehabilitation of the North Harbor would be the extension of the MRT2 line into the pier area and integrating a station into the ferry terminals. There should be an easy link between ferry terminals, airports and train stations. Travellers should be able to fly into Manila from anywhere in the world and then easily transfer to other modes of transportation via public transit.

I hope you intergrate an MRT station into your design.

Wow interesting thesis and great inputs!

Shipbuilding: Sailing back to the glory days
Joan Orendain

THE GLORY days of Philippine shipbuilding were in the 16th and 17th centuries, when the country led the rest of the Orient in the seafaring trade.
Three-masted Spanish galleons loaded with treasure, which swashbuckling English pirates plundered, were constructed in Cavite, Iloilo, Pangasinan, Sorsogon, Masbate, Albay, Mindoro and Cebu.
Made of Philippine mahogany, the cannonballs of marauding buccaneers merely bounced off the galleons' hardwood decks.
In modern times, by virtue of geography, we are dependent on ships for domestic and overseas transport, fishing, defense, offshore patrol, customs interdiction, and search and rescue activities.
The demand for ships is great, but most, if not all, of the steel-hulled ships plying our waters are imported, largely as second-hand reconditioned ships.
The boatbuilding industry remains strong, as in the days of yore. Shipwrights still build wooden-hulled boats that provide short-distance transportation services for passengers, and outriggers for fishermen.
There are several local shipyards capable of building steel-hulled vessels, but the domestic demand is limited to small steel-hulled vessels such as barges, tugboats and fishing vessels.
Two companies based in Cebu-Tsuneishi Heavy Industries Inc, and FBMA Babcock Marine Inc.-are successful shipbuilders catering to the export market.
Tsuneishi builds bulk carriers, while the FBMA builds high-speed catamarans. Both are joint venture companies, where the foreign partners provide the technology, experience and access to the global market, while the local partners provide the land, skilled labor and local market access.
Most of the shipbuilding firms in the country are engaged in ship repair, servicing the second hand fleet where they make good returns.
These include firms such as: Keppel Philippines Inc., with shipyards in Batangas and Cebu; Subic Shipyard & Engineering Inc. located in Zambales; and Philippine Iron Construction & Marine Works Inc. in Northern Mindanao.
Largest in the world
South Korea, which has the largest shipbuilding industry in the world, has captured 56.2 percent of the world's new orders for ships.
Their order books over the next two years are full. Japan trails Korea by half at 26.6 percent, and Europe is a poor third at 11.3 percent.
The Philippine picture could change, though, as a few good men work quietly in their government offices to try to make the shipbuilding dream happen.
The lone Philippine delegate to the shipbuilding conferences organized by the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation Special Negotiating Group (OECD-SNG), was Agustin Bengzon, an undersecretary of the Department of Transportation and Communication.
Bengzon attended the conferences to learn how other countries developed their shipbuilding industry.
Special niche
The Philippines, Bengzon learned, could carve out its own market niche in the shipbuilding industry. Also, he found out that European shipyards enjoyed generous grants, government support measures and subsidies.
Our special niche, focusing on building small ships of 5,000 deadweight tons or less, could fly, with government setting policy directions and providing a favorable investment climate.
Bengzon announced the good news at the BIMP-EAGA (or the Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines-East Asean Growth Area) Philippine Exhibition and Conference.
He also discussed shipbuilding opportunities for the region.
In a memo to his boss, Secretary Leandro Mendoza, Bengzon noted that the Philippines needed to craft a policy and an action program to upgrade the country's shipbuilding industry.
Policy paper
Mendoza then directed Bengzon to prioritize the development of the local shipbuilding industry and tasked him to oversee the formulation of a policy paper and action program.
Mendoza's decision was recognized by President Macapagal-Arroyo in her 10-point agenda. The President encouraged the "growth of the national shipbuilding's industry" as a specific project for job and wealth creation.
Bengzon and Vicente T. Suazo Jr., Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) administrator, have started conducting dialogues with shipbuilding companies in the NCR, Iloilo, Cebu and Cagayan de Oro.
The dialogues provided a forum for the comprehensive exchange of ideas-to produce a viable action program.
Bengzon said that recent events have contributed to the development of Philippine shipbuilding.
The existing domestic demand for ships, the availability of local funds, and our shipbuilding capability are determining the shape of the shipbuilding industry, he said.
Huge demand
There is a demand for the following type of vessels:
Roll-On/Roll-Off vessels. Ninety-six are needed for the 48 identified routes along the Ro-Ro Terminal System. The Roll-On/Roll-Off Terminal System is a component of the Development Bank of the Philippines' Sustainable Logistics Development Program (RRTS-SLDP). The SLDP is a collaboration between government and the private sector to bring about cost-effective ways of moving goods and people.
Vessels of various types. At least 120 are needed. The vessels are part of the Philippine Navy's 15-year acquisition program.
Multi-role response vessels. Around 311, ranging in size from 15 to 125 meters and other types of vessels. The vessels will be acquired by the Philippine Coast Guard over a 15-year period.
Allocation
Also, there is a demand for aging domestic merchant and deep sea fishing fleets, where 57 vessels may be over 30 years old and 128 vessels may be up to 26 years old.
To pay for all this, Bengzon cited the DBP allocation of P12 billion for the procurement of Ro-Ro vessels under the RRTS-SLDP.
The DBP, in collaboration with the National Development Corp. has also established the NDC-Maritime Equity Corp., a ship financing facility.
"I commend DBP chair Vitaliano Nañagas II and former Department of Trade and Industry Secretary Cesar Purisima for recognizing the need to establish a ship financing and leasing facility jointly with the NDC to address the financing requirements needed to support the shipbuilding program," Bengzon said.
Given the number of ships to be built and the magnitude of the funding required, more than one financing and leasing firm may be needed to cater to both the public and the private sectors' requirements, he said.
Investors for this new ship financing and leasing company could also come from financial institutions, insurance and fund-management groups, and venture capitalists.
(To be continued)


may katuloy na po b ito?

Crucial to the rehabilitation of the North Harbor would be the extension of the MRT2 line into the pier area and integrating a station into the ferry terminals. There should be an easy link between ferry terminals, airports and train stations. Travellers should be able to fly into Manila from anywhere in the world and then easily transfer to other modes of transportation via public transit.

I hope you intergrate an MRT station into your design.

this is probably where the terminal for the lrt extension from recto station will be placed.

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i will be locating the passenger terminal building in Pier 2 which is the closest to the access road for pedestrians. the passengers will be shuttled to their respective piers after all cargoes are loaded. so while they are in the terminal, they will have a proper waiting area or they can also be with their well-wishers in a secured view deck. this terminal will also have commercial areas that will add to the terminal's revenues.

i have talked to an official in the Phil. Port Authority and she discussed that the lrt line extension isn't that possible to be implemented any few years from now. but at least, we can prepare for it in the design provisions of the terminal just in case.

any new suggestions for the passenger terminals here in the Philippines that will make it more comfortable for passengers?

would the proposed design have an overhead LRT?... I guess an on ground level train station is better there... and maybe a bus hub or PUV area should be considered..

well i was really planning on a multi-modal hub for my thesis in the start but my professor had to ditch the idea it being too difficult with the given deadline.

but a future access to the lrt terminal will be considered but it will be part of an "Future Expansion" of the terminal cause the lrt extension might not come in the next 10 years or so.

i was also thinking about the lot size of north harbor excluding the piers. It really isn't wide enough so i would really have to resort to reclamation for most of the terminal area.

^ How do you ensure that your professor will not steal your brilliant thesis ideas and concepts later on and package those as his when bidding for the project? Or perhaps contractors tapping onto your blog and this forum?

^ How do you ensure that your professor will not steal your brilliant thesis ideas and concepts later on and package those as his when bidding for the project? Or perhaps contractors tapping onto your blog and this forum?

my classmates and i were also thinking about that before...you know, when we were on our lower years, some of our projects were taken from real projects that our professors had at that time. well we can never really be sure of what will happen to our ideas (which aren't that brilliant at all ^_^' ) ..there's really nothing much that we can do about it as students.


actually...i am a bit having second thoughts on what to post on my blogs etc..hehe as those are informations coming from my ideas..well..maybe i will have to limit what i post.

well let's just say that my idea won't be anything close to being buildable in this time hehe...i will make it a bit futuristic. :)

well thanks so much for the thought lili. ^_^

^I see a very promising career for you in the future. Keep up the good work and the vision! :okay:

Who cares if the ideas are "stolen"? Personally as a creative person, I would rather that my good ideas are taken for free and used, rather than if a bad idea was implemented when it comes to situations like this. What would drive me is to see that the enviroment is improved, not the egotistical claim to an idea. There is only one North Harbor, and I hope the best of all ideas get considered when the time comes to really develop it.

Who cares if the ideas are "stolen"? Personally as a creative person, I would rather that my good ideas are taken for free and used, rather than if a bad idea was implemented when it comes to situations like this. What would drive me is to see that the enviroment is improved, not the egotistical claim to an idea. There is only one North Harbor, and I hope the best of all ideas get considered when the time comes to really develop it.

right now, it is more of an achievement for students like me if ever ideas coming from us are used whether we get credit or not. just the mere fact that it might be considered is already an achievement for us, it means that we might just have what it takes to be in this profession.

about the development of the philippines, every bit of good idea is needed nomatter who it came from. personally, i really don't actually care much about who gets credit for what. that's why i hate MOST of the POLITICIANS who paints their UGLY NAMES and FACES in every little bit of public properties that they think they gave to us out of their own good will.

i will start a thread about the craziest credit claiming frenzies of stupid politicians there is. ^_^ for example, waiting sheds. ^_^

one of my concerns is this: why would people prefer sea travel if it is much slower than air travel?

it is always mentioned that air travel saves a lot of precious time. not to mention comfort. with this, how can sea travel compete air travel? i mean, one of the few edges there is to watertravel is its cost. it really is a lot cheaper to ride a ferry rather than take a plane. with this, most of the people riding the ferry are those who are budget constrained. if given the availability of money, these people would undoubtly take the plane instead more or less.

what if North Harbor is really developed complete with facilities and amenities that matches or even surpasses those of airports? of course sea travel not only refers to the terminals but also the ships of shipping companies. it will be great if they will also contribute to the overall development by maintaining their vessels more properly.

air and sea are like apples and oranges. the common thing they have is the travellers. but in terms of sceneries, its a lot different. that's why there are CRUISE SHIPS where people take their time out..relaxing and rewinding. there is something amazingly relaxing with the sound of the rolling sea that one cannot experience in air. being in an airplane is just like being in an enclosed space with comfortable seats etc. except that you are in air. one cannot actually experience the air, it doesnt even touch your skin. next thing you know, your back in land. whereas in water travel, you go out to the deck, smell the freash sea, if lucky you might even see dolphins, schools of fish, etc. waves splashes high, wind breezes to your skin with droplets of salt water..it is indeed a more relaxing experience than just staying on your seat looking out the window and seeing patches of clouds you can see from land.

my point is this. not most people are into this except if they go on a vacation. most people who travel are more appreciative of speed. they are so into their hectic schedules that they can't see the beauty of life you can only see in slow motion. with this, how can Sea Travel compete with Air travel?

can we promote sea travel as a relaxing mode of transpo, where speed is something overshadowed by serenity of travelling, something more of a cross between a cruise liner experience and a mode of transportation? with the development of the North Harbor Passenger Hub as a prelude to what sea travel is all about, might it just boost the water travel industry? in what other ways can we promote water travel, something that will make people prefer it even if they are capable of taking the airplane?

air travel = getting there fast is the point
sea travel = when you're on a boat you've already arrived :)

air travel = getting there fast is the point
sea travel = when you're on a boat you've already arrived :)

OMG bustero! :dance: your the party man! nice suggestion! right!

Here at Neo North™, we understand that it's not just your destination, it's the process of getting there that's important. By plane, you can get to your destination fast. But by boat, you get there FASTER!


:cheers: NeoNorth™: The Extension of your Destination! :cheers:

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the Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Facility in Balamban, Cebu
this is a joint venture between the Aboitiz and the Tsuneishi group of Japan.

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a 50,000 DWT tanker built in Cebu
cebu is the shipbuilding capital of the country, and the Philippines will become soon the fourth shipbuilding nation because of it.

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fastcrafts built in Balamban, Cebu

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fastCrafts to be built
it can also build luxury fast crafts like these.

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another ship is launched
the Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Complex in Balamban can build one of these ships every 45 days.

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ships Built in Balamban, Cebu

who can help ? i´m looking for the official website of the "Harbour Centre" north of the International Container Port/North Harbor. just cannot find the correct name/website. it was built by R2 builders/philippines. can anyone help pleased ? salamat.

Hi, Can anybody tell us of any developments of this project???

^^ there's nothing on the dotc website I think it'll just come out when the contract has actually been signed, these things can take several months even if everyone is in agreement.

Richard, I've never seen an R2 builders website. Are you sure it exists. You may get more info from Philipine Ports authority website regarding this though.

hehehe... magkakaroon kami ng ferry terminal sa PUP... saya!


next stop PUP! hehehe... sa tabi lang to ng building namen. :) nice! :cheers2:

hope though the fare isnt so mahal... :) (i hope maabutan ko pa to!)

taken from philstar.com..

Gov’t to spend P1B to build nautical highway

The Philippine Star 01/04/2006

The national government intends to spend P1 billion to build the country’s nautical highway system this year, Cebu Rep. Eduardo Gullas said.

The amount would be used to complete the remaining links of the Western, Central and Eastern Nautical Highways and strengthen the viability of the entire system, Gullas said.

"The funds will be spent mainly to improve the network of municipal ports and coastal roads that support the nautical highways," he explained.

The idea is to further ease transportation services and mobility in seaside towns leading to harbors that form part of the system.

To date, the nautical highway system, which includes the Cebu-Bohol-Camiguin roll-on, roll-off (RORO) complex, has reduced transport costs by 37 to 43 percent for passengers and by 24 to 34 percent for cargo. Travel time was also reduced by 10 to 12 hours.

As a result of the considerable reduction in transport cost and travel time, Gullas said the nautical highway system has also invigorated domestic merchandise trade and tourism in a big way.

The nautical highway system maximizes the use of RORO facilities to move passengers and cargo from Mindanao to Visayas to Luzon.

The Western Nautical Highway is the western seaboard trunk route from Manila to Dipolog City or the Northwestern tip of Mindanao, which connects to the central trunk route at Cebu City in Central Visayas.

The Central Nautical Highway is the central trunk route connecting Pilar, Sorsogon to Balingoan, Misamis Oriental, passing through Central Visayas and connecting to the East-West trunk routes at Cataingan, Masbate and San Carlos City in Negros Occidental.

I took this pic of the Mindanao Container Terminal last month.. I have no news on whats going on this, but I have seen some cargo trucks carrying some container loads going out of the terminal.

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I took this pic of the Mindanao Container Terminal last month.. I have no news on whats going on this, but I have seen some cargo trucks carrying some container loads going out of the terminal.

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what is this ? where is it and why is everything so empty ?

^^ there's nothing on the dotc website I think it'll just come out when the contract has actually been signed, these things can take several months even if everyone is in agreement.

Richard, I've never seen an R2 builders website. Are you sure it exists. You may get more info from Philipine Ports authority website regarding this though.

thanks bustero,
will just have to wait and see....

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one of the cleanest ports in the country

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pier 1: cebu, city

lol i thought cokelitro had something to do with those boats above:D

Is Negros Navigation still in business? I remember as a kid going to Bacolod from Manila using their ships.

^^ Yes kire. NN is still up and floating..

^^ Good to know! :okay: I guess since airfares are considerably cheaper these days and travelling times have been cut short because of it, I wonder how the shipping companies keep their businesses afloat? :dunno:

^^ SuperFerry i believe is slashing their prices off for summer.

^^One othe competitor believe it or not is the cellphone, the aboitizes actually noted that increased cellphone expenditure has cut into interisland travel.

I've never been inside a ship, hanggang ferry lang ako... What's the feeling once you're inside? Are the accomodations great?

Any news, pics or updates about pasig river ferry? ~tnx! :)

lol i thought cokelitro had something to do with those boats above:D

and why, if i may know? :D

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=alvinCapino_april19_2006
... at least some buzz ... :)

For once, there is something that feuding Manila Mayor Lito Atienza and Metro Manila Development Authority Chairman Bayani Fernando agree about.

Atienza and Fernando both agree on the revival of the Pasig Ferry Service which is expected to be on stream before the end of this year.

MMDA is one of the cooperating government agencies for the project which is spearheaded by the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission together with the Department of Transportation and Communications.

Atienza said he is giving his all-out support for the new Pasig Ferry Service since this is in line with the city’s “Buhayin ang Maynila” program.

The Manila mayor said the City of Manila would provide all the necessary support for the new ferry stations that would be located in the city including improved access roads, security, maintenance and whatever would be needed to encourage the public to patronize the ferry service.

He said he would make the ferry stations in the city integral parts of the ‘Buhayin ang Maynila’ program which includes the popular Roxas Boulevard Baywalk, the development of the Rizal Avenue pedestrian walk and shopping center, the revival of Escolta, the redevelopment of Remedios Circle and other projects that seek to regain the glory of old Manila, one of the premier cities of Asia.

Under the revived Pasig River Ferry Service, the national government through a loan from the Asian Development Bank is financing the construction of 13 ferry stations from Escolta at the mouth of the Pasig River to Marikina City. The station would be equipped with amenities like airconditioning, comfortable waiting areas, ticketing systems, scanners and metal detectors, comfort rooms and vendo machines.

The actual ferry service, however, would be left to the private sector that are being provided incentives such as exemptions from franchise fees and other charges as well as import tax and tariff exemptions. At least six private companies have indicated interest in running ferry service once the ferry stations are operational.

Atienza said he fully supports the revival of the Pasig River Ferry Service which would provide fast and cheap alternate transport within Metro Manila.

The project is also expected to get the support of the feisty Makati Mayor Jojo Binay and this might be the first in a long, long time that he will get to work together with Fernando.

Binay might be a hard core member of the opposition but he has proven that he is ready to cooperate for projects that would benefit the people as he had proven in the relocation of informal dwellers along the railroad tracks in the jurisdiction of Makati.

Vice President Noli de Castro said the relocation of the informal dwellers in Makati’s railroad track is one of the fastest and most orderly undertaken by the National Housing Authority because of the support of Binay who pledged to continue providing support including schooling for the children of affected families.

and why, if i may know? :D

well.... uh. it just sounds the same. who knows we might have a Philippine shipping heir in skyscrapercity. nothing devious:)

PCCI backs privatization of North Harbor Terminal 1
By Marianne V. Go
The Philippine Star 05/17/2006

The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) yesterday expressed its support for the privatization and competitive bidding of the North Harbor Terminal 1, reversing its earlier position supporting only one operator for the facility.

In a press conference, PCCI president Donald Dee apologized for the earlier PCCI position which supported only one operator for the port.

According to Dee, the previous PCCI Transport Committee had failed to conduct extensive consultation with all shareholders before submitting its recommendation to the PCCI Board to support only one operator for the North Harbor port.

The PCCI Transport Committee that recommended the single operator position was then headed by Xavier J. Aboitiz of Aboitiz Transport.

Fortunately, Dee said, a closer review of the single operator recommendation showed that not all the shareholders favored a monopoly.

Thus, following further consultations and studies, the PCCI, Dee said, now supports the privatization of Terminal 1 of the North Harbor through public bidding.

In a new letter dated May 15 to the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), the PCCI recommended the privatization of Terminal 1 to be done "as soon as possible" through a "transparent and competitive" procedure.

The PCCI also recommended that the PPA allow Harbor Center, which is run by R2 Builders, to operate in competition with Terminals 1 and 2.

Terminal 2 would continue to be operated by the PPA at its current state to allow a cheaper alternative and port for older ships.

Terminal 1, the PCCI recommends, should only be "upgraded" rather than "modernized" to prevent over-capacity and over-investment.

South Harbor, the PCCI advocates, should also be allowed to compete with the North Harbor Terminal 1 and 2.

http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200605170711.htm

taken from philstar.com.. *sigh.. more delays.. .

Pasig River ferry opening pushed back to end-2006
By Marianne V. Go
The Philippine Star 05/26/2006

The soft re-operation of the Pasig River Ferry service has been pushed back to the end of this year from the original June target due to some delays in the construction of the terminals as well as changes to the boat operation.

This was announced yesterday by members of the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC) during a press conference to update the public on the status of the river ferry project.

According to Chito Macapagal of Unilever, the private sector representative in the PRRC, the commission was "overly ambitious" in setting a June target for the soft re-operation of the Pasig River ferry service.

The PRRC, Macapagal disclosed, did not realize that it should have factored in possible delays caused by the need to secure right-of-way, geologic problems from unexpected rock formations, as well as technical and financial discrepancies by the terminal contractors.

The PRRC also still has to bid out the operation of the electronic ticketing for the ferry service.

Separate biddings, Macapagal said, were conducted for the construction of the terminals, the operation of the ferry service and the operation of the terminals.

Likewise, Macapagal admitted, there have also been some changes with regard to the number and size of the boats to be useds.

From the original 18 boats with a 50 passenger capacity, Macapagal said, the winning ferry operator has reduced the number of boats to about six with a larger passenger capacity of 150.

An initial seven terminals are in various stages of construction with only the Guadalupe terminal almost complete.

The declared winning bidder chosen by the PRRC to operate the ferry service was Nautical Transport Services Corporation, a joint venture between Filipino proponents and an Australian firm with experience in ferry service operations in Sydney.

Only Nautical Transport Services, which is a joint venture between an Australian ferry service firm - SydneySide Cruises – and Filipino partners Eduardo Bondad, Atlanta Industrial and Penta Capital Investments, was able to reach the third stage with a fare quotation of P2.25 per kilometer exclusive of terminal fee.

The Pasig River ferry service operator would be given an exclusive contract to operate the ferry for a period of five years to ensure its profitability.

Well it's definately going through, i just saw some pics in the Manila thread of a ferry station u/c. So where will the stations me?

well.... uh. it just sounds the same. who knows we might have a Philippine shipping heir in skyscrapercity. nothing devious:)

hahaha. i wish my dad's a shipping magnate...

Actually, some stations like that one in Guadalupe, Makati is almost done.

^^ Hopefully pics would come in!!! :)

Its on the Pasig River Pages
river ferry terminal contruction updates...

mexico plaza intramuros
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/imagesaver1206/pasig%20river%20redevelopment%20project/d9c0bff0.jpg

guadalupe station
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/imagesaver1206/pasig%20river%20redevelopment%20project/cfeddb35.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/imagesaver1206/pasig%20river%20redevelopment%20project/029681bb.jpg

^^ i imagined the stations to be grander.. oh well..

^Actually, I've also thought of the same thing. Don't you think the stations are a bit small? I am really expecting for a bigger one though the design seems to be descent enough. And why is that station in Mexico Plaza different? It doesn't look nice for me.

^^ ^^ same here ... i imagine the station to be better ... does anyone knows how much is the budget per station??

... mukhang barangay hall or police outpost lang :(

Wow!! ang cute ng Guadaloupe station....

Oo nga yang Mexico station parang CR na Malaki...lol

It looks like the building is enough just for the person handling the ticket. The people will just have to wait outside to smell the breeze of the Pasig River (that is if it is already cleaned up). I thought the budget here are in the millions.

I hope they did not commit the same mistakes as the past pasig river ferry. Not much investment at all in the terminal resulted in no passengers. The problem is if its raining, you can imagine how difficult it is to get in a boat. That Mexico one does not look like it's got any provisions for shielding passengers from the elements while boarding (and as firend junex has said mukhang CR !) and while the guadalupe station looks ok, it really looks small. The boat is supposed to be able to carry 150 pax right (?) so a big station like guadalupe where it connects with the Mrt 3 should be able to protect about 100 people in waiting in my opinion. I can't see how they'll fit in that one!

How much was alloted for this project? I don't see how they can spend hundreds of millions for those.

Yeah, I believe those are just worth thousands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCXtaK5ryyY

Took from Iligan City Thread (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=8765413)

flickr.com - by metaboring_john

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/Alingatong/pier1.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/Alingatong/pier3.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/Alingatong/pier2.jpg

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/4504/bacolod1048ex.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7898/bacolod1272gu.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

port of san carlos city, negros

nice piers,
but no boats,
no boats,
no business

well it's very low profile, i think they're very cautious in this.. i think if there is a lot of patronage they could expand it very much there's space there. but.. yeah.. it's a market penetration strategy. they can't risk busting the business leaving big white elephants.

Are there any ports in the Pacific Ocean side or Eastern side of country? I only know LEgaspi city. But that's not even a major port, I think. The government should prioritize this and build ecozones in provinces like Samar, Surigao, Isabela, Aurora, Quezon, Camarines provinces, Albay and Sorsogon. This could be a catalyst for growth in Eastern Visayas, eastern Mindanao,Cagayan Valley, Pacific side of Region 3&4a and Bicol.

nice piers,
but no boats,
no boats,
no business


baka taken ang pics after caloy? :)

^^ sana , guapo mo man ang mga piers, sayang naman

mas marami pa atang boats dun sa tubig0n ferry... everytym nandun ako, i usually see 3 to 5 boats waiting for the passengers to board or waiting for the crew to prepare for the passengers to disembark... maliit pa yun..
pr0 it's just so funny to note Lang in d pictures na walang boats considering na visayas pa naman sila.,

^^ ung san carlos city Lang paLa ang sa visayas.. hehe, my bad.. :D

Money allotted for RP harbor upgrade
By VG Cabuag
Reporter

THANKS to funding availability, the Philippine government is expected to finish the remaining undeveloped ports subsumed under a project intended to connect land and sea routes all across the country.
According to Oscar M. Sevilla, Philippine Ports Authority general manager, only 12 ports under the Strong Republic Nautical Highway require improvement.
Besides amounting to P50 million each on the average, the port upgrades involve installation of Roll-on, Roll-off (RoRo) ramps and construction of passenger terminal buildings.
“We have the budget [for the construction]. I have already allocated the budget,” Sevilla said, adding that the central nautical highway needs more improvement.
Although the PPA executive did not disclose the 12 remaining ports that needed enhancements, an agency source said eight “big ticket” facilities have already finished its preliminary feasibility studies. These are the ports of San Jose in Occidental Mindoro, Taytay in Poblacion, Palawan, Siaton in Negros Occidental, Pilar in Sorsogon, Matnog in Sorsogon, Aroroy in Masbate, San Ricardo in Southern Leyte and Lipata in Surigao.
“Our private consultants have finalized their report and we have already submitted the studies for National Economic and Development Authority approval,” the source said.
Since it is considered as one of the top revenue earners of the national government, the PPA is seen to possess the financial wherewithal to push through with ports’ improvement.
Last year, it earned an estimated P3.62 billion, an increase of more than 80 percent from the previous year. Half of these were reported to have been remitted to the national government while the other half has been retained so that it can be used for port development. PPA’s planned sale of P2 billion in local bonds are also being earmarked for the purpose.
Although a July 2005 order instructed the transport department to integrate the development of RoRo systems in the country, the government only started meeting early this month, exactly a year after the order was released.

http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/ship03.php

Passenger, Cargo/Freight, Roro, Yacht, Ports, FastFerries, Naval Bases etc.etc.etc.

Meron na kasing Aviation thread (Airplanes, Airports, etc thread). Ngayon naman, diskusyon tungkol sa industriya ng paglalayag sa karagatan. Mula sa mga barko, sa mga pyer hanggang sa karanasan sa pagsakay sa barko o opinyon sa isang pyer/puerto sa Pilipinas.

Passenger, Cargo/Freight, Roro, Yacht, Ports, FastFerries, Naval Bases etc.etc.etc.

Meron na kasing Aviation thread (Airplanes, Airports, etc thread). Ngayon naman, diskusyon tungkol sa industriya ng paglalayag sa karagatan. Mula sa mga barko, sa mga pyer hanggang sa karanasan sa pagsakay sa barko o opinyon sa isang pyer/puerto sa Pilipinas.

pwede submarine?.... :bash: hehehe.... gusto kong sumakay ng submarine...

tips pag musakay sa barko..


#1
sa mga manigarilyo..itago inyong lighter sa pagsakay..kay kung makit-an sa guard ipabilin baya kini sa pier..
#2
kon kusog ang balod..itry nga mugawas ka..pagpahangin aron makit-an nimo ang balod..sa in ana nga style, mawala gamay imo kalipong..ug kon mahimo, suwayi ug sabay ang balod.

#3
siguraduha nga naa kay ticket..kon mag inspect na sila, unya wa kay ticket..naa sila katungod na ilabay ka sa dagat..(lols binuang ra bitaw)

#4
kon mag inusara ka sa pagbyahe..nindot kung magbaon kag baga nga nawong..aron kon naa chicks..kindat sabay gerger tirada..hehe..paninhuhai ra nga dili nimo mahatag ang imo ngalan o unsa mang tinuod nga impormasyon batok kanimo..dili na mahitabo sa imoha ang nahitabo kang aga ug kristine sama sa salida..

#5
ayaw pagkinuripot..kon mahimo pag business class o cabin o suite..gawas sa gamit kaayo ni sya kon naa ka chicks ma ila-ila, ma safety sab nimo imong mga butang ug lahi ra man jud nang economy..gawas kung anad ka matulog sa evacuation center..lols

#6
bag-o musakay sa barko, haluki ug ingni ug "i lab u" ang tanan nimong mga gimahal..wa ta kasigurado, mulubog pa lang ang barko .na!

']tips pag musakay sa barko..


#1
sa mga manigarilyo..itago inyong lighter sa pagsakay..kay kung makit-an sa guard ipabilin baya kini sa pier..
#2
kon kusog ang balod..itry nga mugawas ka..pagpahangin aron makit-an nimo ang balod..sa in ana nga style, mawala gamay imo kalipong..ug kon mahimo, suwayi ug sabay ang balod.

#3
siguraduha nga naa kay ticket..kon mag inspect na sila, unya wa kay ticket..naa sila katungod na ilabay ka sa dagat..(lols binuang ra bitaw)

#4
kon mag inusara ka sa pagbyahe..nindot kung magbaon kag baga nga nawong..aron kon naa chicks..kindat sabay gerger tirada..hehe..paninhuhai ra nga dili nimo mahatag ang imo ngalan o unsa mang tinuod nga impormasyon batok kanimo..dili na mahitabo sa imoha ang nahitabo kang aga ug kristine sama sa salida..

#5
ayaw pagkinuripot..kon mahimo pag business class o cabin o suite..gawas sa gamit kaayo ni sya kon naa ka chicks ma ila-ila, ma safety sab nimo imong mga butang ug lahi ra man jud nang economy..gawas kung anad ka matulog sa evacuation center..lols

#6
bag-o musakay sa barko, haluki ug ingni ug "i lab u" ang tanan nimong mga gimahal..wa ta kasigurado, mulubog pa lang ang barko .na!

hehehe!!! :bash: mabuang sad ta ug basa...

ako sad....

1. ayaw kalimot ug dala cash, para ug maka- trip ug chiks naa kay ika- buga... lisod na ang panahon praktikal na.... (daghan kaayo japayuki sa barko)

2. pabaga gyud ug nawong inig ting.kaon.... sakay ug sulpicio lines (kanang first class kay eat all you can!) para dili alkanse sa byad...

3. ug kusog ang bawod... istambay lang sa videokehan... daghan bawod didto!

4. ayaw pailad anang superferry 12.... gubaon na cya... ka lima na gyud ko sakay nga na delay pirmi kay maguba ang makina....

5. ang nag- design anang superferry 15, 16, 17, 18 kay ako maestro.... wa ko salig ana niya... ( way klaro).... musod lang klase ug ganahan...

6. sakay na lang mo ug eroplano... kay mas barato... pero ug ma krash... cgurado hurot gyud mo...

ma-o overrated ra bitaw ning mga superferry..mas ganahan ko sa interior sa Sulpicio..sa kong nasakyan ha..(princess of the universe, princess of the world ug princess of new unity) walay ikabuga ang SF 10, SF15 ug SF19..yatis ang SF 19 kay ma-o man diay na ang SF8 sa una..tingala ko murag nagtakilid man kon mudagan..lols

unya (amobot ra if hantod karon) sa Sulpicio kay buffer kung first class ka..unya 3 pa jud ang dining sections (1st, 2nd ug economy) sa SF kay 1st/2nd unya economy..

des pues kon mag sulpicio ka unya mag suite ka..mura gyud kag nag hotel..

Psst, English or Tagalog here guys, we are not in a local city thread. ;)

^^ SuperFerry 19 is on drydock. Nasa Mactan na ngayon at pinipinturahan ng bago. Balita ko kasi, Aboitiz will reduce its passenger services and more on freight which is 2GO and the likes. Kaya nawala ang SuperCat routes sa Cebu-Tagbilaran at Iloilo-Bacolod v.v. Ang Our Lady of Medjugorje naman nakatambay lang sa kalagitnaan ng Mactan Strait.

For the info sa mga di pa nakakaalam...wala na ang WG&A SuperFerry. Bumalik sa sariling negosyo ang mga Gothong at Aboitiz. Ang SuperFerry na nakikita nyo ngayon ay 100% Aboitiz na.

^^talaga.. fully recovered na ba ang Gothong at William lines?

Ang Gothong buhay nanaman uli. They serve Iligan, Butuan and Manila. Ang William Lines, I don't know. Better ask the Cebuano forumers for they know these maritime giants.

For the benefit of non-Visayan forumers, ito na ang translation ng
WAWAY AND RAGE'S GUIDE IN RIDING PHILIPPINE FERRIES:

#1
sa mga manigarilyo..itago inyong lighter sa pagsakay..kay kung makit-an sa guard ipabilin baya kini sa pier..

Sa mga maninigarilyo, itago ang inyong lighter sa pagsakay kasi kung makita ng gwardya yan, maiiwan ka sa pier.

#2
kon kusog ang balod..itry nga mugawas ka..pagpahangin aron makit-an nimo ang balod..sa in ana nga style, mawala gamay imo kalipong..ug kon mahimo, suwayi ug sabay ang balod.

Kung malakas ang alon, lumabas ka. Magpahangin ka para makita mo ang alon. Pag ganyan, mawawala ng kaunti ang iyong pagkahilo at kung maaari sumabay sa suway ng alon.

#3
siguraduha nga naa kay ticket..kon mag inspect na sila, unya wa kay ticket..naa sila katungod na ilabay ka sa dagat..(lols binuang ra bitaw)

Siguraduhing may ticket. Kung mag-iinspek sila tapos wala kang ticket, meron na silang itatapon sa dagat (kalokohan)

#4
kon mag inusara ka sa pagbyahe..nindot kung magbaon kag baga nga nawong..aron kon naa chicks..kindat sabay gerger tirada..hehe..paninhuhai ra nga dili nimo mahatag ang imo ngalan o unsa mang tinuod nga impormasyon batok kanimo..dili na mahitabo sa imoha ang nahitabo kang aga ug kristine sama sa salida..

Kung magbibyahe, mas maganda kung magbaon ka ng kapalmuks. Kung may chicks kindat sabay gerger. Huwag mong ibigay ang pangalan mo at totoong impormasyon tungkol sa sarili...hindi na mangyayari ang sa iyo ang kay kristine at aga.

#5
ayaw pagkinuripot..kon mahimo pag business class o cabin o suite..gawas sa gamit kaayo ni sya kon naa ka chicks ma ila-ila, ma safety sab nimo imong mga butang ug lahi ra man jud nang economy..gawas kung anad ka matulog sa evacuation center..lols

Huwag kumuripot. Kung magiging business class, cabin o suite. Lalo na kung may kasamang chicks kasi iba ang economy, parang kasing nasanay ka nang matulog sa evacuation center.

#6
bag-o musakay sa barko, haluki ug ingni ug "i lab u" ang tanan nimong mga gimahal..wa ta kasigurado, mulubog pa lang ang barko .na!

Bago sumakay ng barko, halikan at bigyan ng "i lab u" ang lahat ng iyong minamahal..walang kasiguruhan at baka lumubog ang barko.

#7
ayaw kalimot ug dala cash, para ug maka- trip ug chiks naa kay ika- buga... lisod na ang panahon praktikal na.... (daghan kaayo japayuki sa barko)

Huwag kalimutan ang cash para kung makikipag-trip sa chicks, meron kang ibubuga. Mahirap na ang praktikal na panahon (madaming japayuki sa barko)

#8 pabaga gyud ug nawong inig ting.kaon.... sakay ug sulpicio lines (kanang first class kay eat all you can!) para dili alkanse sa byad...

Pakapalan ang iyong mukha pag kainan. Sumakay sa Sulpicio Lines (eat all you cann ang first class) para di sayang ang bayad.

#9
ug kusog ang bawod... istambay lang sa videokehan... daghan bawod didto!

Kung malakas ang alon, istambay sa videokehan.

#10
ayaw pailad anang superferry 12.... gubaon na cya... ka lima na gyud ko sakay nga na delay pirmi kay maguba ang makina....

Huwag nang sumakay ng SuperFerry12. Palaging sira. Kasi 5 beses na akong sumakay at laging delayed dahil laging sira ang makina.

#11
ang nag- design anang superferry 15, 16, 17, 18 kay ako maestro.... wa ko salig ana niya... ( way klaro).... musod lang klase ug ganahan...

Ang nagdesign sa SF 15,16,17,18 ay ang aking guro. wala akong tiwala sa kanya (di klaro). papasok na lang sa klase nya kung may gana.

#12
sakay na lang mo ug eroplano... kay mas barato... pero ug ma krash... cgurado hurot gyud mo...

Sumakay na lang kayo ng eroplano...mas mura...pero kung mag-crash...sigurado ubos kayo.


^^ Patawara gyud ko. Lisuran ko motranslate...hehehe! :p

totoo yung dulo, pinaplano kung umuwi sa manila mula sa cebu na nakabarko,
hindi ko matandaan kelan ako nagbarko nun, siguro nung 8 yrs old pako nun, long time ago in betlehem

nag-design ako ng Integrated Passenger Terminal sa north harbor para sa thesis ko...wala pang ganun ngayon pero may mga plano na dati pa ang PPA.

tanong ko lng po..
1. ilang "class" meron sa isang ferry? (first class, business, exonomy etc..)
2. lahat ba sila sama-sama sa ferry terminal ngayon..o iba ang dinadaanan ng mga first class?
3. gaano katagal ang avarage time na kelangan para sa pagproseso at paghintay ng isang pasahero sa terminal bago tuluyang makasakay sa barko?
4. gaano karami ang dinadalang hand-carry bagahe ng isang ordinary pasahero..ung hindi chini-check in?


marami pa po akong mga tanong sa inyong mga may experience kaya sana po masagot nyo para may idea ako sa users ng terminal...salamat.

took a break from my thesis for a whole sem..so ito na po.

marami nang updates sa project ko ibang-iba na sa previous posts ko dahil last year pa po itong thread na ito...

ok na ung mga boards ko for defense..i'm just going to ask some more questions para mapulido ko ung plans kung kelangan mag revise.

1.Suite, Steteroom, Cabin, Tourist, Mega, Economy( Yan ang alam ko'ng "class" ng SuperFerry.
2. Sama sama ata. Ganun sa south harbor, sa Eva Macapagal.
3. Baggage Xray lang, tapos ticket inspection. Akyat na.
4. May chini-check in ba? Ang alam ko, hand carry lahat. at your own risk pag akyat kaya better not bring too much baggage.

Suggestion ko.. design a terminal w/c will have boarding bridges like the Airport terminals kasi nakakapagod talaga akyatin, lalo na siguro sa mga may edad na. Alam ko sa ibang bansa ganun na ang terminal ng mga barko, esp the cruiserliners.. pero dito sa atin wala pa ata.

here's my Concept Board for thesis..

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n174/altbucket/conceptboard.jpg


here's an aerial sketch

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n174/altbucket/aerialPerspective.jpg

My concept maximized natural ventilation and cooling techniques to conserve energy...

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n174/altbucket/navventconcept.jpg

^^ Hey @rajiris: Long time no post. It's nice to see the development and new Concept Board of your thesis. :okay:

hi po! onga po e sobrang long time no post...took a break from thesis e..bale defense ko na po sa thursday at may mga kelangan pa kong baguhin at idagdag sa plans ko..kaya nagtatatanong tanong na ko dito sa forums...

some questions pa po:

1. ilang "class" meron sa isang ferry? (first class, business, exonomy etc..)
2. lahat ba sila sama-sama sa ferry terminal ngayon..o iba ang dinadaanan ng mga first class?
3. gaano katagal ang avarage time na kelangan para sa pagproseso at paghintay ng isang pasahero sa terminal bago tuluyang makasakay sa barko?
4. gaano karami ang dinadalang hand-carry bagahe ng isang ordinary..ung hindi chini-check in?


by FrancisXavier

1.Suite, Steteroom, Cabin, Tourist, Mega, Economy( Yan ang alam ko'ng "class" ng SuperFerry.
2. Sama sama ata. Ganun sa south harbor, sa Eva Macapagal.
3. Baggage Xray lang, tapos ticket inspection. Akyat na.
4. May chini-check in ba? Ang alam ko, hand carry lahat. at your own risk pag akyat kaya better not bring too much baggage.

Suggestion ko.. design a terminal w/c will have boarding bridges like the Airport terminals kasi nakakapagod talaga akyatin, lalo na siguro sa mga may edad na. Alam ko sa ibang bansa ganun na ang terminal ng mga barko, esp the cruiserliners.. pero dito sa atin wala pa ata.


New Set of Concerns: pakisagot po sa mga nakakaalam thanks!


1. bale ndi ko na nilagyan ng boarding bridges ung terminal ko..kasi malayo sha sa edge ng pier..mga 30m ang layo. i left 30m setback max all sides to provide area for other cargo operations na hindi kasama sa scope ko...dahil ganun kalayo..ndi ako naglagay ng boarding bridges..bale lalakarin nlng nila with covered walks..or shuttle...what is acceptable?

2. cguro 15-20% ng terminal is arrival while the rest is for departure. is that ratio ok?

3. besides passengers and their baggages, ano pa ba ang mga sineservice ng mga Ro-Ro's? those that i don't include in my terminal

4. what types of baggage/cargos are there and what should i include in the passenger terminal? example..ung mga "freight"..included pa po ba un dapat sa services na ipoprovide ng passenger terminal ko?

5. must there really be a VIP waiting lounge?

6. approx. how long does a departing passenger wait in the lounge before boarding finally? kasi my concept is natural ventilation using cross-ventilation concepts..therefore wala akong aircon sa waiting lounge. will that be an issue?

7. the passenger terminal admin, they don't necessarily handle the control of ship calls (like an Airport Control Tower)..does this mean there's a similar "Ship Control Center" handled by PORT Admin?

8. meron po ba kayong Foundation Details para sa pier na ganito? or pde itong gawing landfill?



i didn't research much on ferry lines operations, i limited my project to purely passengers. kaya i don't know much about the whole Ro-Ro operation which won't be supported by my designed facility.



THANKS for all inputs...

^^ Batangas has those "aerobridges"; Sana nga naman meron na talagang revitalization ng North Harbor. Nakakatakot kasi pumunta dun, lalo na kung gabi ang biyahe at baka mapaano ka doon.

Anyway, Super Fery 19 (formerly Wilines Mabuhay 3 of William Lines then Superferry 8) was refurbished and to be leased to a foreign land. It doesn't carry the SuperFerry 19 logo but a new livery.

oonga pala.. Those pink bording bridges,ala mmda's pedestrian overpass.. Those bridges are more than 30m of walk right? I hope to see similar stuff in manila soon. sa south harbor.

Hey, naalala ko nga pala, there are boarding bridges in batangas port. And those are more than 30meters walk for the terminal is too far from the edge of the pier.

[QUOTE=rajiris]here's my Concept Board for thesis..

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n174/altbucket/conceptboard.jpg


here's an aerial sketch

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Very Nice Design ! That would definately boost Tourism and Architecture alike in the Philippines ! Submit your plans to the proper authorities for consideration. It deserves proper attention and should be adopted in my opinion.
Best from Germany,
Richard.

Would be great for everyone to understand who are interested in Philippine develpoments, could you guys come back to english for all those who are not capable of Tagalog please ?
Salamat Po !

they were not even speaking in Tagalog... >_<

hehe, anyways, the last time I've been to a ship was when I was still 5 or 6, basta, incoming kinder. I can barely remember my experiences back then.

Do they now screen passenger bags in xray machines just like in airports?

^^ Batangas has those "aerobridges"; Sana nga naman meron na talagang revitalization ng North Harbor. Nakakatakot kasi pumunta dun, lalo na kung gabi ang biyahe at baka mapaano ka doon.

Anyway, Super Fery 19 (formerly Wilines Mabuhay 3 of William Lines then Superferry 8) was refurbished and to be leased to a foreign land. It doesn't carry the SuperFerry 19 logo but a new livery.

mapa mabuhay 3, SF 8 or SF 19..naka tagilid pa rin ang barkong yan..hehe

do you guys have a picture of that boarding bridge? i didn't place a boarding bridge in my design because i thought it would be too far and also..the boarding bridge would get in the way of cargo handling service for the ships...

tips pag musakay sa barko..

Ferry Travel Tips


#1
sa mga manigarilyo..itago inyong lighter sa pagsakay..kay kung makit-an sa guard ipabilin baya kini sa pier..

For smokers, keep your Zippo lighter inside during boarding. If found, the guard will confiscate and left on the pier.

#2
kon kusog ang balod..itry nga mugawas ka..pagpahangin aron makit-an nimo ang balod..sa in ana nga style, mawala gamay imo kalipong..ug kon mahimo, suwayi ug sabay ang balod.

If the waves are strong, try to get outside the deck, get some fresh air, and see the waves. In that case, your seasickness will be gone. If possible, ride with the wave.


#3
siguraduha nga naa kay ticket..kon mag inspect na sila, unya wa kay ticket..naa sila katungod na ilabay ka sa dagat..(lols binuang ra bitaw)

Make sure that you have a ticket on hand anytime. If they inspect and you don't have a ticket, the crew has the right to toss you overboard (LOL, just kidding).

#4
kon mag inusara ka sa pagbyahe..nindot kung magbaon kag baga nga nawong..aron kon naa chicks..kindat sabay gerger tirada..hehe..paninhuhai ra nga dili nimo mahatag ang imo ngalan o unsa mang tinuod nga impormasyon batok kanimo..dili na mahitabo sa imoha ang nahitabo kang aga ug kristine sama sa salida..

If you travel alone, it pays to have balls. If you have chick beside you, you will be get laid on board. Make sure that you never reveal your name or true information against you. It will not happen to you just like the movie starring Aga Mulach and Kristine Hermosa (for foreigners: a Filipino movie entitled Dubai).

#5
ayaw pagkinuripot..kon mahimo pag business class o cabin o suite..gawas sa gamit kaayo ni sya kon naa ka chicks ma ila-ila, ma safety sab nimo imong mga butang ug lahi ra man jud nang economy..gawas kung anad ka matulog sa evacuation center..lols

Don't be stingy, if possible accomodate at business class, cabin, or suite. Other than getting laid with your chicks, your baggage and valuable things won't be stolen... unless if you are get used to sleep at evacuation center... LOL.

#6
bag-o musakay sa barko, haluki ug ingni ug "i lab u" ang tanan nimong mga gimahal..wa ta kasigurado, mulubog pa lang ang barko .na!

Before you leave, kiss and say "I love you" to all persons who loved you. We are not sure, the ferry sinks... :runaway:

hahaha!!!!

this thread rocks the boat!

pwede submarine?.... :bash: hehehe.... gusto kong sumakay ng submarine...

Are there any institutions in the Philippnies that designs superstructures for submarines and shipboard applications?

Just curious. If not, are there any plans for any designs of the above?

Are there any institutions in the Philippnies that designs superstructures for submarines and shipboard applications?

Just curious. If not, are there any plans for any designs of the above?

meron pare, Philippine Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering...

meron pare, Philippine Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering...

Found below link about status of Philippine shipbuilding:

http://www.marina.gov.ph/report/sbsr/sbsr.htm

There are a lot of opportunities in this multi-billion industry and the Philippines being one of multicoastal country, ought to be the pioneering country in development of transcontinental/continental ocean ship development from aircraft carriers to submarines and other floating platforms.

I think that in terms of anciliary development, such as propulsion systems designs and development including parts and systems, I am beginning to be confident that it can be a reality. Maturity of these technologies should bring in development to littoral major islands' industries. Demands for these should spur development of locally designed and built fixed-wing and rotary aircrafts from helicopters to airplanes if not supersonic jets using similar propulsion systems.

^^I'm actually interested in the structural design of ships

^^I'm actually interested in the structural design of ships

What kind of design software programs are you using for structural ship designs?

port center...
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supercat terminal...
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princess of the stars...
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pier 4
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mactan bridges...
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Surigao City Port
2006 Winner
Cleanest and Most Child-Friendly Port

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this passenger terminal is equipt with an X-ray machine for checking baggages much like those used in airports and all passengers boarding any boat are required to check in here and have their baggages scanned through the X-ray.

What kind of design software programs are you using for structural ship designs?

softwares used are custom-made programs specially made for ships and floating platforms such as Strucad commonly used in the oil and gas industry. There are also general structural softwares with add-ons for offshore structures such as SAP2000.

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Subject: Hope in Mindanao
Message: The Phividec Industrial Authority was saying that the Mindanao Container Terminal was going to "complement" the Cagayan de Oro port. Why are they now pirating the shipping lines that used to call at Cagayan? It is now very obvious that the new port was built to compete with the old port. One of these days, the Phividec will also be handling non-containerized cargoes. This will kill Cagayan de Oro port. Who will benefit from such an eventuality?
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Subject: Waterfront Woes
Message: What constitutes a monopoly? I believe Rep. Eduardo Zalciata should clarify the term. ATI's South Harbor and ICTSI's Manila International Container Terminal are competiting with each other, although I understand their PPA-approved tariffs are the same.
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Date posted: 10/03/06 5:10 PM

Subject: Tilting the Balance
Message: You missed the following in your alleged "Mafia-like operations" for SSBT:
PHILCAMSAT; MAGASYAY TRAINING CORPORATION, NYK-FIL, MARITIME ACADAMY OF ASIA AND PACIFIC, NORWEGIAN TRAINING CENTER
Posted by: Reynold "BURT" M. Sabay
Company: New Simulator Center of the Philippines, Inc.
City/Country: Makati City
Date posted: 10/3/06 8:54 AM

Subject: Crewing Market Share
Message: DEAR SIR/S,
GOOD AFTERNOON.I CAUGHT THE FIGURES AND SUBSEQUENT STATEMENTS OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAFARERS MARKET SHARE.THE GLOBAL FIGURE MENTIONED IS 1.187[CONSIDERED ACTUALAND CONFIRMED NUMER] AND FILIPINO DEPLOYMENT AS 247,770.
YOU ARE RIGHT IT IS JUST A FIFTH OF THE TOTAL GLOBAL SHARE NOT FOURTH OF THE GLOBAL FIGURE.TO PRECISE ONE FIFTH NOT ONE FOURTH OF THE TOTAL FIGURE ON GLOBAL SCALE.
Posted by: LEO MIRANDE
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Date posted: 10/02/06 2:48 PM

Subject: An Image Problem
Message: good observation, however please be informed that when prc required this toyship mandatory was 2001 and the the 'interim courses' and what we have now (shortage of officers) is the aftermath of this mandatory requirements even if both are not mandatory by stcw. Remember, skills cannot be assessed by a simulator.

airplane pilots although they are required to take simulator courses, still the final requirements is the number in "Actual Flying Hours."
I am not against simulator, it is good as a training tool, but it should not be a pre-requirement inorder to get the license and c.o.c. of any marine officer. Check out how much must a would be officer or officer who would want to upgrade his license, will spend inorder to get his license and c.o.c. Even if any company has a very good cadetship program, the officer or would be officer will always "run aground" in prc, who issues marine officer license and c.o.c. because of huge costs and the time of acquisition of license and c.o.c.
Posted by: keen observer
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Subject: Tilting the Balance
Message: You used a very apt word - 'inequity' - to describe the state of affairs at the Port of Manila. However, the editorial did not say how the imbalance can be corrected. I think the best way is for Congress to pass a law that would restructure the PPA so that its role as public port owner can be separated from its role as port industry regulator. The PPA cannot have both. Changing the managements of the PPA and the MARINA for that matter will not change the system that we have now.
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Subject: Flagged Out Fleet
Message: With the flagging out of filipino owned tonnages a question props up. Why is this happening in a country who tries to earn more foreign exchange from shipping sources? The only answer is the failure of
the government agencies to come out with
the correct implementation of standards, rules and regulations affecting the industry. With all the guidelines we get from IMO, the interpretations however has been done by minds who's intent is nothing more than to self-interest and turf protection.
Posted by: oldsalt
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Date posted: 10/2/06 7:59 AM

Subject: Tilting the Balance
Message: You hit the nail right on the head. Both agencies, Marina( Money Na) and PPA (Papaano Ako) has always been protecting the interest of their bosses (the big shipping and port operators) they have forgotten their
bounden duty to the government and SERVICE. they have been concerned so much with regulatory functions than servicing the industry they are supposed to serve. What a waste of minds and money!
Posted by: Michael B. Cuanzon
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Date posted: 10/2/06 7:45 AM

Subject: Bay Un-watched
Message: I was shocked to learn that piracy and thievery are still taking place in Manila Bay. And to think that the Philippine Coast Guard headquarters is very near to where the incidents happened. There is no excuse for this kind of laxity on the part of our maritime law enforcers, especially after the Abu Sayyaf bombing of the Superferry 14 in 2004.
Posted by: Margot Yu
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Date posted: 09/31/06 1:14 PM

Subject: Man-Sized Job
Message: Your editorial about MARINA Administrator Suazo was too mild. It should have called for his resignation.
Posted by: J.A.C.
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Date posted: 09/25/06 11:26 AM

Subject: Solar 1 - Incident
Message: All views are correct, just don't forget the fact that prior and during the charter party agreement - Petron is conducting Vetting Inspections in regular interval in order to monitor and maintain the integrity of the vessel with regards to safety, equipments, constructions, crew's certificates and crew's know how in the general operation of the vessel, emergency response plans, reporting during any incidents, etc.,

If Petron is satisfied in all areas of concerned that the vessel is indeed ready to carry their cargo safely, promptly and efficiently then that's the only time they will load the vessel with their cargo.

BMI is correct to charge all involve in the large scale oil spill that occur in Guimaras to be a detterent, that all mentioned company and individuals has general duties and responsibilities to practice- to ptotect life, properties and the marine environment.

In any case of catastrophic events, if there are proper coordinations, reporting, actions we could have limit the spill and contained them immediately, instead of blaming each
and everyone, instead of finger pointing.
Accidents do happened, but preparedness
to avoid further damage is another thing.

Posted by: Capt Rey Valeros Jr.
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Subject: Petron Pilloried
Message: Agree with Capt. Cuanson, Petron as the charterer should not be blamed for the sinking, nor be made accountable for the pollution damage. Under the amended Internatl Convention for Civil Liability for Oil Pollution, Art 4, Section 4, "no claim for compensation of pollution damage can be made against the charterer, unless the damage resulted from their personal act or omission, committed with intent to cause such damage or with the knowledge that such damage would probably result".
And lately the SBMI came up with the recommendation that Petron should be blamed for overloading the ship. Any senior officer worth his salt, would know that the charterer would just give you the figures to load and would not interfere with how you load it. The ship decides if it can all be loaded and how it's stowed.
Posted by: golf bravosierra
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Date posted: 09/18/06 4:05 PM

Subject: Petro Pilloried
Message: With so many government agencies giving their two cents worth of nothing we should have given Petron a pat in the back for utilizing their resources to assist in the forefront the cleanup of Guimaras beaches.
Why fault Petron? She is not the Carrier only the owner of the cargo. Who made the decision to pass by the Western part of Panay? Unless Petron spcifically issued an order as a charterer to pass by there, the Master of the vessel will have followed and Petron would be blamed. But it appears like the Master of the vessel took a calculated risk and the vessel sunk. So why blame Petron? This is a sad statement being a brother in the profession but the blame should be properly ascertained before we come out with statements pillioring Petron.
Posted by: Michael B. Cuanzon
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Date posted: 09/11/06 9:41 AM

Subject: A Question of Values
Message: Your editorial entitled "A Question of Values" failed to point out that few Filipinos remember the nearly 5,000 people killed in the Dona Paz ferry disaster of 1987. Is there a monument put up for the victims or even just an annual memorial service? If Filipinos don't care about the loss of thousands of human lives, how can they care about the destruction of the marine environment as a result of a big oil spill as we witnessed in Guimaras?
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Subject: Tell The Barista
Message: Can Marine Cafe help our government officials conducting investigation on the Guimaras oil spill please!! I heard one official saying that the cleaning must be done double time because the WIND DIRECTION WILL SOON CHANGE FROM SOUTH WEST TO NORHT EAST. He was worried that the wind will blow the oil NORTHWARD when the NE moonsoon comes. That's PATHETIC... Kawawa naman sila kung hindi nila alam na ang wind direction na NORTH ay sa SOUTH pala ang punta. Please lang kahit INFO lang...
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Subject: Tell the Barista
Message: Marine Cafe is indeed doing a great job. Can we make a humble request - that our brothers in profession give constructive suggestions rather than sarcastic comments. We need good men with brilliant ideas NOT bright boys with bad moods. Let us all think of what we can do for the maritime industry, and NOT what the industry can do for us. Let\'s be united please! More power and God Bless us all!
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Subject: Capt. Arcellana ("Pros and Cons")
Message: What is Captain Constantino Arcellana's basis for saying that "Filipino senior officers are of a dying breed.?" This is an insult to the hundreds of senior Filipino ship officers whose professional skills have been duly recognized by international shipowners as evidenced by the fact that many of them have been allowed to command all types of vessels, including chemical and LNG tankers.
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Subject: Reader's reaction
Message: Wonderful website with just enough articles to give one a good handle on what's happening in the Philippine maritime sectors. You could expand the 'What's Brewing' section to include more market development news.
Posted by: I.A. Mckinley
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Date posted: 07/29/06 6:13 AM

Subject: Maritime subsidies
Message: Your editorial 'Waste Not, Want Not' hit the nail right on the head. The question of subsidies boils down to the proper management of financial resources. This means, as you correctly suggested, the incentives should be necessary and deserved by the beneficiary companies.
Posted by: Libbie Sebastian
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Subject: ictsi's guam imbroglio
Message: there are always 2 sides to a coin. it would be nice to hear the other.
Posted by: one
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Date posted: 07/24/06 11:50 PM

Subject: Magsaysay and flagging out option
Message: There was a time not so long ago when we had about close to 500 ships under Philippine register, and at present we have about 150. Not quite sure about the figures, but these doesn't matter much, the fact is, the interest of shipowners to register their ships in our flag is not there anymore and made certainly clear by the fact that a known Filipino shipowner has register it's ship outside. Now there is certainly not right here, and I can understand this shipowner's action.
I hope the concern government agency and those promoting the Philippine register get their act together before we lose all those remaining ships.
Posted by: Capt. GBS
Company: AECMP
City/Country: Makati Phil
Date posted: 07/22/06 2:10 AM

Subject: Website is much improved
Message: The Marine Cafe keeps getting better. It's much better organized and user-friendly. I also like the way you try to cover various sectors of the maritime industry while keeping the website lean. More power to you.
Posted by: Margot Yu
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City/Country: Cebu
Date posted: 07/20/06 2:27 AM

Subject: Magsaysay and flagging out option
Message: I agree with the previous letter-writer. Why fault Ms Doris Ho and Magsaysay for registering some vessels in other countries? At least, they own their own fleet. The same cannot be said of many Philippine overseas shipping companies, most of which are only manning agents with bareboat chartered vessels.
Posted by: captainhook
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Date posted: 07/15/06 12:54 PM

Subject: Flagged-out Filipinos
Message: The direct reference to Doris Magsaysay Ho as one who flags out to Panamanian or to the Cyprus flag has a very good reason. Remember in the late ninties there were funds for lending to the maritime industry to the tune of 50 million dollars each from Germany, Norway and Japan.This was at an interest rate of 3% per anum basically and was given to DBP to manage. DBP wanted to lend these funds to Filipinos to the tune of 13.5 per anum. In spite of this, Doris Magsaysay Ho applied for the loan to build two ships but DBP for strange reasons dragged its foot on the loan application for two years.

If I were Doris Magsaysay Ho I wouldn't have waited for two years. At that exorbitant interest I would have gone outside of the country for funds which are easily available to people with a good international shipping standing such as Magsaysay. And after losing patience, that is what Doris did. Is there anything wrong with that? She is totally right in registering her vessel elsewhere than in this country.

Best Natural Harbors:
1. Subic
2. Iloilo
3. Cebu
4. Dadiangas
5. Please add more...

^^ Davao? gulf? though pag exit jud nimo balod gyud kay pacific ocean na man

I think it was planned to put the Naval Academy in Davao Region .

Manila is one of the best natural harbours in Asia IMO.

Good day.
Later on I will post also pictures of ships manned by Pinoy seamans.or ships I previously
commanded. meantime will just share to you the Pinoy maritime forum.

emesber
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Topic: Correcting the Image
Message: The purpose of simulators is excellent but the approach in training is questionable.

The only mandatory simulator training under STCW -95 is that relating to the use of radar and ARPA. In these two specific cases, simulators are the only accepted methods of demonstrating competence. In all other instances, APPROVED SIMULATOR TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT IS “NOT MANDATORY”, BEING JUST ONE OF THE METHODS ACCEPTED BY THE CONVENTION FOR TRAINING AND DEMONSTRATING COMPETENCE (this is a written fact – in the STCW-95 Guide for Seafarers, under Section 2). THE USE OF OTHER METHODS SUCH AS IN-SERVICE EXPERIENCE OR TRAINING SHIP EXPERIENCE ARE EQUALLY ACCEPTABLE).

THE PRESENT SIMULATORS IN THE PHILIPPINES IS A CATEGORY OF “OPTIONAL” SIMULATOR AND ASSESSMENT THAT COVERS; NAVIGATION AND SHIPHANDLING, CARGO HANDLING, GMDSS COMMUNICATIONS, PROPULSION AND AUXILLIARY MACHINERIES.

THE OPTIONS STATED IN THE STCW ARE – IN CORRECT ORDER OF CHOICE;

.1 IN-SERVICE TRAINING/EXPERIENCE
.2 TRAINING SHIP EXPERIENCE
.3 BY SIMULATOR
.4 BY LABORATORY EQUIPMENTS

HERE WE CLEARLY SEE THAT SIMULATOR AS A METHOD OF DEMOSNTRATING COMPETENCE IS ONLY SEAFARER’S THIRD CHOICE. IF THERE WERE NO PROPER PRESENTATION OF IN-SERVICE TRAINING/EXPERIENCE AND SHIPBOARD TRAINING, THAT’S THE ONLY TIME THAT A SEAFARER WILL HAVE TO USED THE THIRD OPTION – BY USING SIMULATOR.

FURTHER THE CONVENTION ALSO STATES THAT, SIMULATORS NEED TO COMPLY WITH PRESCRIBED STANDARDS. “THIS DOES NOT IMPLY THAT ALL SIMULATORS NEED TO HIGHLY EXPENSIVE AND COMPLEX ELECTRONIC ARTEFACTS. ALTHOUGH CERTAIN SIMULATORS, SUCH AS RADAR OR ARPA, DO FALL UNDER THIS CATEGORY, OTHER TASKS CAN BE TAUGHT AND ASSESSED USING “MORE BASIC SIMULATORS”.

FOR EXAMPLE, SHIPS MODELS ARE WIDELY USED FOR PROVIDING TRAINING IN SHIP STABILITY AND FOR ASSESSMENT PURPOSES, AND EVEN AN “ORANGE” USED FOR TEACHING INJECTION TECHNIQUES IN FIRST AID TRAINING CAN BE CONSIDERED A SIMULATOR.

OUR PRESENT APPROACH WITH REGARDS TO THE USE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SIMULATORS AS ONE OF THE METHODS IN DEMONSTRATING COMPETENCE (BEING ONE OF THE OPTIONS ONLY) CREATED A WRONG IMPRESSION WHEN IT IS MADE MANDATORY......

IF A SEAFARERS PASSED THE WRITTEN TECHNICAL PHASE IN ALL THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE WHOLE SYLLABUS, HE WILL BE ASSESSED ONLY IN NAVIGATION USING SIMULATOR. WHEN HE FAILED HE WILL NOT BE GIVEN THE COC UNLESS HE PASSED THE SIMULATOR ASSESSMENT IN NAVIGATION ALONE. MEANING F1 ALONE OVERRIDES AND COVERS ALREADY THE SUPPOSED ASSESSMENT FOR F2 & F3 IF IT IS APPLICABLE. THIS IS THE SECOND REASON WHY SIMULATORS CREATED A WRONG IMAGE.

THE THIRD REASON....
INSTRUCTORS AND ASSESSORS ENGAGED IN SIMULATOR BASED TRAINING NEED NOT ONLY PROPERLY QUALIFIED IN THE USED OF SUCH EQUIPMENT, BUT, THEY MUST ALSO BE A MASTER MARINERS OR PILOTS WHO ACTUALLY MANEUVERED A VESSEL IN ALL CRITERIA THAT IS BEING COVERED IN DEMONSTRATING OF COMPETENCE.

IF SIMULATORS APPROACH IS ALREADY WRONG, HOW CAN WE GO TO THE MUCH TALK ABOUT ISSUE REF TO MLC THAT ALSO INCLUDED IN ITS CONTENT F1 - ADVANCE NAVIGATION(AGAIN USING SIMULATORS). MIND YOU AGAIN….THEY WANT MLC TO BE MANDATORY !!!

WE MUST CORRECT FIRST THE FIRST MISTAKE BEFORE GOING TO THE NEXT LEVEL. OTHERWISE ALL WILL BE QUESTIONABLE ONCE AGAIN....

LASTLY, TO ALL CONCERNED – PLEASE KINDLY ISSUE, POST OR MADE PUBLIC THE PHIL GOVERNMENT REPORT TO THE IMO THAT BECAME THE BASIS OF CREATING THE MLC. OTHERWISE, IF THIS DOCUMENT WILL NOT BE MADE AVAILABLE (BEING A PUBLIC DOCUMENT) , AGAIN WE WILL NOT ANSWER APPROPRIATELY ALL THE QUESTIONABLE MATTERS COVERING THE ENTIRE MLC.


Posted by: Capt Rey Valeros Jr.
posted: 10/08/06 5:13 PM
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Topic: Memory recall
Message: June 2001 - 6 examinees perfected the board exams;
June 2002 - more than 1,500 passers nullified due to massive cheating; Philippines even got black-listed by AMSA;
The aftermath - Board exams are never the same again! (Ang akala! bow!)
Posted by: Seaman
posted: 10/3/06 9:03 AM
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Topic: SEAMAN'S CONT.DISCHARGE BOOK
Message: DEAR ALL,
PLEASE CHECK THE SEAMAN'S BOOK OF YOUR CADETS.THERE MIGHT BE SOME RESTRICTIONS.IT COULD BE LIKE OUR PHILIPPINE PASSPORTS WHICH IS STAMPED:NOT ALLOWED FOR TRAVEL TO IRAQ.FOR THE SEAMAN'S BOOK[WHICH BY THE WAY IS GOOD ONLY FOR THREE YEARS-IT IS STAMPED:FOR SHIPBOARD TRAINING ONLY.[HAVE YOU TRIED RENEWING THE SEAMAN'S BOOK AFTER YOUR SEAFARER GOT PROMOTED ONBOARD?TRY IN CEBU.
Posted by: LEO M.
posted: 10/02/06 3:09 PM
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Topic: Rebates
Message: If I remember right it was this system of rebates that did the Admiral Training Center in. There where a group of people there who instituted this from a different room of the same building which brought about the downfall of the Admiral Training Center. Where are these people now?
Posted by: Gregorio Maamoy
posted: 10/2/06 9:15 AM
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Topic: Rebates
Message: Any study done on the impact of rebates to the competence of Filipino Seafarers? To the global image of the Filipino Seafarers? To the country? To the industry itself?
Posted by: Seaman
posted: 09/25/06 0:11 PM
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Topic: Top Story - Hard Lessons
Message: I dont get it. Presently we have three separate investigations conducted on the Guimaras Oil Spill by Solar 1. I thought that the SBMI findings and recommendations would come first, then this would trigger the DOJ, and if ever , the Senate investigations later? This is how it was done in the past.
Why?Your guess is just as good as mine. And I wouldnt be surprised if they'll come up later with three different versions of the cause of the incident.
Posted by: golfbravosierra
posted: 09/07/06 6:29 PM
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Topic: BE INDENTIFIED
Message: TO ALL MARINE CAFE READERS,

PLEASE KINDLY IDENTIFY YOURSELF WHEN POSTING A MESSAGE. IF YOUR MESSAGE CONTAINS AN HONEST TO GOODNESS OPINION, WHY NOT PUT YOUR NAME AND DON'T BE AWKWARD. AS LONG AS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS CONSTRUCTIVE AND OBJECTIVITY IS YOUR FOREMOST AIM - IDENTIFY YOURSELF FOR FUTURE REFERENCE, FROM WHOM THE IDEAS AND VIEWS CAME FROM.

ABOVE IS ONLY A SUGGESTION.
Posted by: Capt Rey Valeros Jr.
posted: 08/22/06 8:05 AM
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Topic: *capt arcellana's remarks about our marine officers
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Posted by: concerned crewing officers
posted: 08/21/06 5:00 PM
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Topic: Training programs & policies
Message: The procedures for drawing up and introducing any new training programme should be improved. I believe that two standard steps should be followed:

1. Honest to goodness, tripartite consultations involving government, management and labor before any new requirement is introduced

2. Publication of the new training program or policy in a newspaper of general publication before its implementation.

This procedure is generally when the Government wants to introduce a new policy or regulation that affects many, so why not in the case of the training of seafarers?
Posted by: J.A.C.
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Topic: THE REALITY .....
Message: Actually, that seems to be the problem in our bureaucracy, we seem to let the so called technical minds do the decision on so many things without actually evaluating the situation in the true sense of requirement. The requirements being imposed are based on what or how these people technical minds would benefit from. Since the time that we have worked our way to the white list of even before that, we have been trying to please the international community by imposing so many requirements which most of the other nationalities does not even bother to know.

We have already proven to the world that the Filipinos are very valuable to this industry that is why we are in this state of struggle in terms of who can offer better salary to the limitted supply of EXPERIENCED seafarers (most particularly the officers). We have already proven to the world that we are that indespensable. In fact, we have already turned the table, we are now the ones making demands in terms of so many conditions (financial, employment and personal).

We don't say that without trainings we will still be able to stay in this level forever. We do need necessary trainings, but we must put it now in the right perspective and avoid generalized training but be more specific to save time and money.

We are given the chance to comply only with the minimum requirements only to save time and money. Yes we can go beyond the minimum, but no repetition of trainings should take place and all needed trainings should be specific to the present demands. Because if the approach will not be in accordance with the foresighted peak time of supply and demand we will again be in a much greater shortage of needed Officers.

Wake up Gentlemen. What we need now is combining old effective methods and new profound productive ideas......not monopoly of process and interest.

Look up in the sky and think....You were once - a seafarer, too.....




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Topic: Salary Factor
Message: Has any company or government agency conducted a study on how much salaries of Filipino officers have increased over the past several years for specific types of vessels? Have this made them less competitive compared to officers from other countries?
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Topic: conference, forums, symposiums, caucus, etc....
Message: It is good that FAME is now initiating moves to further address the so many issues covering the entire process of our dear seafarers.

JUST AN HONEST TO GOODNESS RECOMMENDATION.......PLEASE KINDLY CONSIDER INVITING MORE OIC's AND MLO's THRU MANNING AGENTS....FOR SURE THEY HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS TO RAISE THAN MOST OF US WHO ARE JUST STAYING INSIDE AND ONLY SEEING THE FOUR CORNERS OF OUR ROOM IN THE OFFICE....WHY INVITE MORE OIC's & MLO's??? BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONE IN FRONT OF THE BATTLEFIELD...


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Topic: SHORTAGE OF OFFICERS
Message: SHORTAGE OF OFFICERS BROUGHT OUT THE FF.
1.THE BEST TIME TO DEMAND SALARIES AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL.LOOK AT THE RECENT POSTED SALARY RATES OF EUROPEAN COMPANIES.
IF SENIOR OFFICERS COMMAND SUCH AMOUNTS,IT IS ATTRACTING THE BEST OFFICERS FROM ONE COMPANY[WITH LESSER SALARY-ALTHO NOT ALL-TO THE OTHER-THOSE WHO OFFERED HIGH RATES].
IT IS STOP GAP MEASURE.
THERE IS NO LIGHT YET /AND NO END OF THE TUNNEL SIGHTED.
AND MORE INCOME-MEANS MORE MONEY TO SPEND-CAN WE MAKE A CHOICE [FOR OUR SEAFARERS] WHERE TO SPEND?NO WAY.
IMPOSE WHAT /WHERE AND HOW TO SPEND?
MLC-BY WHOM?YOU DON'T NEED TO GUESS.
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Topic: Filipino officers not good enough?
Message: By making the management-level courses mandatory, the Government is implying that our officers are not good enough to be hired by leading international shipping companies for management-level rank. This requirement of the Maritime Training Council is sending the wrong message to foreign shipowners who needs competent people to man their vessels.
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Best Natural Harbors:
1. Subic
2. Iloilo
3. Cebu
4. Dadiangas
5. Please add more...

I have been to all this harbours except Dadiangas.
To me the best natural harbor is Davao Gulf, it is deep and since the
location is near the equator it seldoms affected by the typhoon.

If I am a Russian or an American Navy policymaker I will prefer to have
a Naval Base in Davao gulf.

^^ Why them and not us?

Our Phil Navy does not even have enough budget to buy fuel for their vessels in patrolling the vast Phil coast, how can we afford to built na naval base there. Our Phil does not even have enough US Military aid 2nd hand vessel from the US Navy to base there in Davao incase we built a makeshift
naval base or naval station.

Right, Davao has a good harbor, except for the approach, which is too long. It takes a long time to reach the open sea.

"In 1900, the General Board of the U.S Navy made a thorough study of the naval base building program and decided that in the Philippines, they believed that the American fleet could be easily bottled up in either Manila or Subic Bays. They instead recommended Guimaras Island specifically Sto. Rosario Cove in Buenavista, which is a part of the Iloilo Harbor (emphasis mine), south of Manila, as the most suitable site for the main American naval base in the Philippines. Admiral of the Navy George Dewey and Admiral George C. Remey, Commander of the Asiatic Fleet, disagreed. They thought Subic Bay held the greatest potential." - Wiki

IMHO, Manila Bay is too wide open to be a good harbor. That's why they have to build breakwaters.

I think the Marine Profession has more skeleton in the closet of PRC than
the Nursing Profession....

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Topic: Memory recall
Message: June 2001 - 6 examinees perfected the board exams;
June 2002 - more than 1,500 passers nullified due to massive cheating; Philippines even got black-listed by AMSA;
The aftermath - Board exams are never the same again! (Ang akala! bow!)
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Date posted: 10/3/06 9:03 AM
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Reply: The antiquated system at PRC and some of the people there are part of the antiquated results that bring about this corrupt practices.
It is time that the PRC is also subjected to what is happening with the Military Retirement Fund. Buwaging Na!

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Posted: 10/02/06 7:45 PM
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Reply: During the height of the controversy,there were numerous calls for a thorough investigation.I believe as i can remember,there was an investigation conducted.Did we miss the official result of the investigation?It also started in 2001 that no more publicised results on the names of those who were topping the written examination,which in the first place triggered competition among the review centers to have the bragging rights of having the most numbers of deck/engine topnotchers.[Of course those who have the most number of slots as topnotchers,will have the bigger number of reviewees on the scheduled next exam.]In actual practice,it is good also to have the right people in connecting inside.

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Right, Davao has a good harbor, except for the approach, which is too long. It takes a long time to reach the open sea.

"In 1900, the General Board of the U.S Navy made a thorough study of the naval base building program and decided that in the Philippines, they believed that the American fleet could be easily bottled up in either Manila or Subic Bays. They instead recommended Guimaras Island specifically Sto. Rosario Cove in Buenavista, which is a part of the Iloilo Harbor (emphasis mine), south of Manila, as the most suitable site for the main American naval base in the Philippines. Admiral of the Navy George Dewey and Admiral George C. Remey, Commander of the Asiatic Fleet, disagreed. They thought Subic Bay held the greatest potential." - Wiki

IMHO, Manila Bay is too wide open to be a good harbor. That's why they have to build breakwaters.


Re about building a Naval Base in Davao Gulf :
about the approach - it is nothing with present speed of Naval vessels which is from 40 knots to 80 knots (nautical mile per hour), or even more.

of course the criteria for a naval vessel during the early part of the 20th century is different now.

with the attached map, you can see the northern part of Davao Gulf has many good place for a naval base that can accomate even aircraft carriers. After clearing Sasa island you can just say you are already in open sea eventhough about 60 miles before clearing the southeast point of the Gulf.

About Manila Bay, the former US Naval Station is located in Sangley Point in Cavite which has a good cover from swells and wind. Of course it is easy to mined the entrance to Manila Bay which is on the east and west side of Corregidor, same like Iloilo / Guimaras strait.

Subic Bay though deep enough for deep draft US Naval vessels, the entrance can be easily mined.

Of course Subic Bay as a naval base is very much better than the Russian Base in the Black Sea since Bosporus strait which is the entrance to Black Sea can be easily mine or blocked by just sinking a ship in the strait.

Davao Gulf has a great potential for a strategic naval base combined with a naval drydock and Airbase.

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;10085950']^^ Davao? gulf? though pag exit jud nimo balod gyud kay pacific ocean na man

Celebes sea man tingali na...ahehehehe...

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this passenger terminal is equipt with an X-ray machine for checking baggages much like those used in airports and all passengers boarding any boat are required to check in here and have their baggages scanned through the X-ray.

wow...looks clean..

Celebes sea man tingali na...ahehehehe...

bay dili man ako makasabot ng cebuano, though my grandfather from carmen cebu and my father from Ormoc, manila born naman ako and grow up in bulacan.

hope we can always use English as our medium here.

Hala...pasensya...nasa isip ko local thread to ng davao kc davao yung pinag uusapan.. wahahaha..my bad.. what i was saying was.

"parang celebes sea yan..hindi pacific ocean"...

Originally Posted by SamwiseGamgee
Right, Davao has a good harbor, except for the approach, which is too long. It takes a long time to reach the open sea.

"In 1900, the General Board of the U.S Navy made a thorough study of the naval base building program and decided that in the Philippines, they believed that the American fleet could be easily bottled up in either Manila or Subic Bays. They instead recommended Guimaras Island specifically Sto. Rosario Cove in Buenavista, which is a part of the Iloilo Harbor (emphasis mine), south of Manila, as the most suitable site for the main American naval base in the Philippines. Admiral of the Navy George Dewey and Admiral George C. Remey, Commander of the Asiatic Fleet, disagreed. They thought Subic Bay held the greatest potential." - Wiki

IMHO, Manila Bay is too wide open to be a good harbor. That's why they have to build breakwaters.



In 1900's Davao City was just a frontier city thats why the American Navy never studied it . But in World War II the Japanese Navy found Davao to be a vital Navy Installation because its near access to Borneo(Oil) and Pacific War Theatre.
Putting a Naval Base in Davao they can easily maneuover than putting in our congested sealanes inside our archipelago w/ its interisland vessels, small boats and other shipping lines crisscrossing on it . New Navy vessels are bigger and need more "breathing area". And its strategic location being near to Indonesia , Malaysia ,Australia and Pacific Islands and its typhoon free.
Putting a Naval Base doesnt neccesarily right smack into the city putting the installation after Samal Island is well be best suited.

Why so negative on putting our own Naval Base? I think its time to own one and we are lagging behind w/ our ASEAN neigbors ,our economy is picking up and i hope we can put our Naval base not just for prestige but against terrorism and pirating.

emesber: in your opinion where do you put the Naval Base based on your Davao map?

In 1900's Davao City was just a frontier city thats why the American Navy never studied it . But in World War II the Japanese Navy found Davao to be a vital Navy Installation because its near access to Borneo(Oil) and Pacific War Theatre.
Putting a Naval Base in Davao they can easily maneuover than putting in our congested sealanes inside our archipelago w/ its interisland vessels, small boats and other shipping lines crisscrossing on it New Navy vessels are bigger and need more "breathing area". And its strategic location being near to Indonesia , Malaysia ,Australia and Pacific Islands and its typhoon free.

Why so negative on putting our own Naval Base? I think its time to own one and we are lagging behind w/ our ASEAN neigbors ,our economy is picking up and i hope we can put our Naval base not just for prestige but also against terrorsm and pirating.

Really Davao and the gulf as well has a very strategic location expecially if a superpower is thinking of geopolitical reasons, like War in the South China Sea, the threat if Islamic extremism from both Indonesia and Malaysia.

There is enough searoom for sea trial or small war games by naval vessel. The coastal area is good enough for building a port and a few meters or a mile from shore, the water depth is good for anchoring deep draft large naval vessels.

I remembered in the 80's they used Davao gulf for anchoring very large oil tankers while waiting for the poll markets to improve.

The Phil Navy naval station in Bongao Sulu and Zamboanga is not safe enough
nor good enough. Davao is a better alternatives for a real Phil Navy Naval Base.

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Crewing Managers Pulling All Stops to Derail MLC

By Rey Gambe
In what appears to be the last line of defense against the charging ‘Management Level Course (MLC) Express,’ the newly established Crewing Managers Association of the Philippines (CMAP) is still not giving up the fight just yet and it seems that it is not about ready to throw in the towel anytime soon.

Apparently, CMAP is still making one final push to derail the implementation of the controversial upgrading course for management level deck and engine officers through all available legal means necessary, if only to drive home its position that ‘MLC should not be made a requirement for officers in securing their Certificates of Competencies (COCs).’

“We do not resist the introduction of MLC per se. As crewing managers, we know and appreciate the importance of upgrading courses and training for Filipino seafarers. What we are against is the imposition that the MLC should be a mandatory requirement before officers can secure their COCs,” says CMAP President Capt. Reynaldo Valeros Jr.

CMAP also believes that the MLC would only confound the officer shortage woes that the global merchant fleet is now experiencing.

Amid the stiff opposition from CMAP, who appears to have taken over the cudgels for the sporadic resistance that Filipino seafarers and the local maritime industry are offering to the implementation of the MLC, the Maritime Training Council (MTC) is hell bent on implementing the upgrading course for Filipino marine officers within the year.

In a recent caucus with CMAP, Capt. Constantino Arcellana Jr., vice chairman of the Board of Marine Deck Officers of the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC), explained that the MLC was developed basically for the purpose of acquiring COCs for management-level positions onboard since PRC license is not recognized internationally.

“There is a big gap between OIC and management level positions so there is a need for specialized training to bridge such gap,” cites Capt. Arcellana.

Capt. Leuel Oseña, Vice President of CMAP, contended that the STCW 95 merely standardized the name of national licenses for the purpose of efficient screening and control in all ports around the globe. “Those licenses are now COCs. COC is just a generic term and it is equivalent to the PRC license. The only distinction is that the COC is the international name. Therefore, those who pass the PRC board exam are automatically entitled to get a COC as a counterpart of their license,” explains Capt. Oseña.

Capt. Arcellana remains firm however with his position that the MLC is necessary for the country to be able to continue to produce the quality officers that foreign ship owners want. He even disclosed that several flag states are enthusiastically waiting for the full implementation of the MLC.

“MLC is necessary because in the global trade and transportation business, training should be continuous. If continuous upgrading and training would mean bigger chance for the continued employment of Filipino seafarers in the global merchant fleet, then MLC is necessary,” Capt. Arcellana pointed out.

He also revealed that the PRC Board of Marine Deck Officers would start requiring MLC for the issuance of COCs by February 2007, emphasizing the urgency of implementing the course as soon as possible.

The MLC became a major industry divider especially when officials of MTC previously claimed that the implementation of the MLC is part of the commitment of the Philippines to the IMO for its eventual inclusion in the ‘white list.’ Industry pundits however, quickly put off the notion citing that the country would not have made it to the white list if that was the case because inclusion requires full compliance to STCW in the first place.

Local manning agents also contend that the MLC has been taken up by Filipino seafarers during the theoretical phase of their three-year schooling and that seafarers’ knowledge on the subject can best be refreshed serving onboard international merchant vessels rather than in training centers ashore.

CMAP Vice President Capt. Nestor Vargas, Fleet Manager of Michaelmar Phils., Inc., shares the same sentiment citing that the government is indirectly contributing to the shortage of qualified and competent marine officers because of the numerous training requirements and assessments being imposed on them.

Capt. Arcellana counters this belief by saying that the government should not be blamed for the delay in the deployment of Filipino officers and ratings because it is up to the manning agents to develop their proper planning mechanisms.

United Filipino Seafarers (UFS) President Engr. Nelson P. Ramirez, says that MLC may be acceptable to some extent to Filipino seafarers. “But what we want to know is who will teach, who will be taught, and what will be taught? For all we know, those officers who will eventually be taking the MLC course are far better in knowledge and experience with their trainors. So what would they get from the training but purely a waste of their time.”

Capt. Oseña stressed that the government should not interpret the shortfall vis-à-vis the demand for Filipino marine officers by foreign shipowners as a marked deterioration on the quality or expertise of Filipino seafarers to man ocean-going vessels.

“Filipino officers are sought not because they are getting more stupid. Ship owners wanted more of Filipino marine officers because they know that Filipinos are capable. The problem is, most of our officers got stuck-up ashore,” he bewailed.

“Imagine delaying 1,000 Filipino officers by at least five months, how devastating could that be to the world shipping? The government should realize that it is at the core of this problem and that it should be open to all solutions. MLC has its usefulness but if utilized in the wrong time, with the wrong persons, in the wrong way, then its overkill,” stressed Capt. Oseña.

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My comments on the controversy in the Philippine Maritime circles is that
the Manning Agencies were all against with new upgrading courses for Pinoy Merchant Marine offices because of their self serving interest. But Pinoy
maritime offices must do all the required upgrading courses so that we can be
at the same level with leading maritime nation's seafarers.

Of course the owners of Maritime Schools that offers upgrading courses to Pinoy seaman ay naglalaway for the vast income they will amass once the
MLC is approved by govt bureaucrats who were also owners or shareholders of those maritime schools and training center. They should start counting their income in dollars not pesos. By the way, it seems the local seaman onboard Philippine ships plying our domestic waters were not affected. Actually the local seaman needs more the upgrading courses than the seaman who sailed on international ships, otherwise maritime disasters like
the recent MT Solar oil spillage will always happens.

@emesber

As a naval base for outside powers, I think the US is already eyeing Dadiangas for this purpose. I have heard that they even have constructed roads disguised as for something else. I'm not sure about this, but it's worth looking at.

As a naval base for the PN, IMHO the present site in Zamboanga is best for the PN's strategy, which is to defend our territory. Ships from Zamboanga can easily cover more territory in less time, than ships from Davao, which take 3 to 4 hours just to get out of Davao Gulf. Moreover, Zamboanga is more strategically located, being nearer to Malaysia and the vital sea lanes.

In 1900's Davao City was just a frontier city thats why the American Navy never studied it . But in World War II the Japanese Navy found Davao to be a vital Navy Installation because its near access to Borneo(Oil) and Pacific War Theatre.
Putting a Naval Base in Davao they can easily maneuover than putting in our congested sealanes inside our archipelago w/ its interisland vessels, small boats and other shipping lines crisscrossing on it . New Navy vessels are bigger and need more "breathing area". And its strategic location being near to Indonesia , Malaysia ,Australia and Pacific Islands and its typhoon free.
Putting a Naval Base doesnt neccesarily right smack into the city putting the installation after Samal Island is well be best suited.

Why so negative on putting our own Naval Base? I think its time to own one and we are lagging behind w/ our ASEAN neigbors ,our economy is picking up and i hope we can put our Naval base not just for prestige but against terrorism and pirating.

emesber: in your opinion where do you put the Naval Base based on your Davao map?

My first choice depending on the depth is the area on the mainland on the east and west of sasa island. there is also a nice small enclosed bay on the
western part of the Davao Gulf, on the map the location is near Malang.

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Shortages Equal Accidents - 13 September 2006


The much talked of global shortage of skilled officers could see an increase in claims resulting from human error and higher premiums in the long term, according to top insurance broker, Aon.

Last year’s BIMCO/International Shipping Federation survey, predicted a shortage of 27,000 officers — some 6% of the required total — by 2015.

“The problem could escalate to the point where shipping companies will have to face real operational difficulties,” Aon maintains.

Over half of officers are already over 40, while new recruits may be deterred by the perception that the work is dangerous and by the trend towards criminalisation.

In addition, outsourcing to Asia and eastern Europe will create language and cultural barriers.

The company is calling on shipowners to counter the projected skills shortfall with better recruitment and retention plans and by ensuring that officers are fully equipped to handle technological advances.

Aon Global Marine chairman Steve Allum said crew employment, training and retention policies may become part of the criteria underwriters use to set premiums.

“Unless shipowners, managers and charterers take further action, the outlook for the maritime industry is not good,” he remarked.

“With diluted experience and training among crews, the possibility of human error is significantly higher and will inevitably lead to increased incidents.”

Aon’s stance is consonant with that expressed by leading employers at a briefing hosting by IMEC in London last week. IMEC vice-chairman Ian Sherwood professed himself “seriously concerned” about both the quantity and quality of officers available.

Unions are also in accord, with a spokesman for UK officers’ union Numast arguing that the officer shortage is starting to bite.

“The industry seems all the time to put the emphasis on cost cutting, without making an assessment of the cost consequences,” he said.

“If you’ve got quality people on board the ship, the ship operates more efficiently.

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Possible future Philippine Naval ships to be built in our shipyards:

MULTI-MISSION NAVAL SHIP

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Ingalls Shipbuilders of Pascagoula, Miss. signed a co-production agreement with a Filipino company as part of its proposal offering the PN a variant of the Sa'ar V class multi-mission ship that it built for Israel.

Sa'ar V class
Displacement: 1,075 tons
Speed: 33 knots

Armament:
8 Harpoon and 8 Gabriel II anti-ship missiles
Phalanx close-in weapons system
2 Barak vertical-launch surface-to-air missile groups with 64 missiles
6 anti-submarine torpedo tubes

Has stealth features, a platform and hangar for one helicopter (Dauphin in Israeli Service). Israeli ships cost $260 million each. Top-weight problems have caused the Gabriel missiles not to be installed.


MISSILE BOAT

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An interesting concept the Philippine Navy might want to consider when designing new vessels or requesting proposals. Denmark's Flyvefisken Class is based on a modular concept - using a standard hull with containerised weapon systems and equipment, which allows the vessel to change role quickly for surveillance, surface combat, anti-submarine warfare (ASW), mine countermeasures/minehunter, minelayer or pollution control. Configuration change can take as little as a few hours. Standard equipment for all roles includes the command system, radars and hull-mounted sonars.

There are four container positions on each vessel. The stainless steel containers, supplied by Monberg and Thorsen, measure 3 x 3.5 x 2.5 m. All dedicated electronics or machinery is installed inside the container and connected to standard interface panels. Just mix and match based on what you need at the moment. The gun reportedly can be changed in an hour, with half a day to align it with it's fire control systems.

Weapon options include Harpoon surface-to-surface missiles, SeaSparrow surface-to-air missiles, a 76mm Oto-Breda dual purpose gun, anti-submarine torpedoes, depth charges and mines.

The hull is fibreglass with kevlar armor for crew protection.

Check it out at http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/fly/index.html.

FRIGATES

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Offered to the Philippines for lease by the US government.

Originally conceived as low-cost convoy escorts. Armed with 36 Standard SM-1 anti-aircraft missiles and 4 Harpoon anti-ship missiles, all fired from one single-rail Mk-13 Mod-4 launcher. The low-cost description is relative to other ships in the US Navy. Actual costs of operation are about US$16 million a year per ship.

Displacement: 3,658 to 4,100 tons fully loaded
Length: 443 ft.
Speed: 29 knots

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Offered for lease by France.

Displacement: 1,100 tons
Length: 262.5 ft.
Speed: 23.3 knots
Range: 4,500 miles at 15 knots
Endurance: 15-20 days

Armament:
4x MM-40 or 2x MM-38 Exocet anti-ship missiles
1 100mm Model 1968 gun
1 Simbad surface-to-air missile system (2 Mistral missiles)
2 20mm Oerlikon cannons
4 torpedo tubes for L3 or L5 ASW torpedoes

Noted for being very economical and seaworthy. Designed primarily for coastal anti-submarine and patrol missions. 17 entered service with the French Navy, 2 more were built for South Africa but were embargoed and sold to Argentina, which ordered 1 more. All were built between 1972 and 1983 and France has been slowly retiring them. There was a plan to outfit two of the class with helicopter facilities but this was not implemented. To date France has 10 remaining in service. Six of those retired were sold to Turkey, reportedly for US$60 million, plus an additional US150 million for refit and modernization.

According to Jane's Fighting Ships 2000-2001 ships of this class were offered for lease to the Philippine Navy but they have not been taken up.

The Model 1968 100mm gun has a maximum effective range of 15km against surface targets, 8km against aircraft. Rate of fire is 78 rounds per minute. The entire mount weighs 22 tons.

The MM38 Exocet carries a 165kg warhead at Mach 1 over a range of 42km. The MM40 Exocet has a range of 65km, uses a lighter launcher, incorporates improved seeker and electronics counter-countermeasures technology and better sea-skimming ability.

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Cebu now launching high-tech naval vessels!

INSIDE CEBU By Bobit S. Avila
The Philippine Star 03/06/2006

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Last Saturday noon, we rode to the town of Balamban, Cebu via the Transcentral Highway for the formal launching of the brand-new Boat No. 1021, a Sea Slice vessel named Lider, the most highly sophisticated high-tech vessel ever built in Asia by the FBMA Marine Inc. (an Aboitiz company) since it has been building fastcraft like the SuperCat ferry serving Cebu City and Ormoc City or the 50-knot TriCat ferry that plies Hong Kong and Macau.

Because it was being launched from the FBMA shipyard, therefore, we saw this vessel when it was still on its cradle before it slid into the water. One can immediately see the technology that Lockheed Martin (America’s biggest defense contractor, which built the World War II P-38 Lighting twin-engine fighter and the venerable C-130 Hercules that the Philippine Air Force still uses) designed into this vessel.

Underneath the Sea Slice’s twin hull are four "Torpedo-like hulls," which look more like mini-submarines, attached to its belly. It has been a known fact that submarines are impervious to big waves because waves affect only the surface of the ocean. Therefore, Lockheed Martin designed a vessel whose underwater structure resembles that of a submarine; hence, the Sea Slice can travel in comfort even in 10 feet swells!

To complete its high technology, the propellers are in the front part of the vessel (call it the front-wheel drive for ships) and it doesn’t have a traditional rudder to steer the vessel. What it has are small wings or vanes that not only steer the vessel, but also keep it steady in the roughest of weather. This is perhaps why this vessel doesn’t turn like a traditional ship, but more like an airplane making a turn. Originally, the Sea Slice was designed as fastcraft for the US Navy and Coast Guard.

Lockheed Martin designed Boat No. 1021 for commercial application for Hoteleria y Servicios Petroleros that operates a ferry service for the giant Pemex Corp., Mexico’s state oil company, and it’s the first commercial craft of its kind and it was built in Cebu! The Lider will serve as a "crewboat" to ferry workers from shore to the oilrigs in the rough seas of the Gulf of Mexico. It will replace helicopter ferries, which are more expensive and cannot fly in bad weather. It’s not a large vessel, only 28.5 meters long with a service speed of 22 knots.

Every time we in the media get invited to the launching of vessels in Balamban, we always get emotional because, as Mayor Alex Binghay of Balamban said in his speech,"These high-tech, world-class vessels are made in Balamban, Cebu… which means Filipinos do not really have to leave their country to find better jobs." We should inform our politicians about this!

On hand to grace the launching of Lider were Roberto Aboitiz and Ernesto Aboitiz of FBMA Marine and its CEO, Doug Border. Angel Morales represented the Lockheed Martin Company, while Jesus Cruz represented the Hoteleria y Servicios Petroleros. No launching could start without a blessing from God, which was done by Balamban parish priest Fr. Manuel Tan… complete with Sinulog offerings.

Ernie Aboitiz reminded me that this project rekindles the Galleon Trade that we once had with Mexico, which virtually put a stop to the Great Silk Road of Marco Polo’s days… because a ship could go from point to point smoothly, unlike on land routes, where often traders got robbed or killed en route.

Indeed, it was a rare sight, seeing the flags of the United States, Mexico and the Philippines on the mast of the Lider — three nations working with each other to help develop each other’s economies. Someday, I hope to see the day when the Philippine Navy would purchase a number of twin-hull vessels for the future of the Philippine Navy and Coast Guard, because we Filipinos can build our very own vessels on our own, right in our own backyard!

http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200603069906.htm

Here are some pics of 2 completed 25m vessel for the British Ministry of Defense

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25m Air Crew Patrol Vessel

Operator - British M.O.D

Owner:SMIT International

Hull Material:Aluminum

Speed 21 knots

WELCOME TO FORT SAN FELIPE(Sangley Point Naval Station)

TOP VIEW

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Central portion of the base

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BN Islanders park

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Northern Portion

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JCPV on docked

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PN LST on docked also

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Mixed Variety of vessels

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Helicopter

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OV-10 Broncos park

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Photos of the charming peoples who manned the Airwing of the Navy.

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Drainage system, pavement to be built in North Harbor
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/ship02.php

THE Philippine government will still pay for some structural upgrades of the Manila North Harbor even if the facility is expected to be privately managed by next year.

Bid documents indicate that the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) is expected to release P23.65 million this year for the construction of a drainage system and a roadway pavement on the harbor’s former railroad system.

Bids for the project, which will take half a year, will be opened at the end of the month.

The PPA is also spending P1.62 million for second phase of the terminal’s improvement survey plan. Seen to be completed in three months, the project involves a detailed topographic survey of the facility such as field inspection, survey of areas within harbor boundaries, preparation of a general topographic map, and the conversion of the Philippine coordinate system to the world geographic reference system, a grid-based system of specifying locations on the earth’s surface, according to Wikipedia.

Earlier, PPA general manager Oscar M. Sevilla said the privatization of the terminal, the country’s busiest but most inefficient, may happen by next year.

He said part of the delay can be blamed on the National Economic Development Authority’s Investment Coordination Committee (NEDA-ICC), which is still reviewing the terms of reference. The NEDA-ICC reviews and recommends for Malacañang’s approval all government ticket projects that falls under the build-operate-transfer scheme.

For its part, officials of the NEDA-ICC maintained the PPA still had to submit some of the required documents, such as the approval from the Department of Finance’s Corporate Affairs Group and the project’s feasibility study.

The government needs to privatize the North Harbor as PPA does not have the necessary funds to modernize the old facility and make it more competitive with the other private ports. VG Cabuag

^ How about the maritime industry thread?

softwares used are custom-made programs specially made for ships and floating platforms such as Strucad commonly used in the oil and gas industry. There are also general structural softwares with add-ons for offshore structures such as SAP2000.

I'd been looking for a collaboration pertaining to Submersible Vessel Design to model, simulate, and analyze propulsion systems. As far as Structural Cad, I think I can integrate output file for System Integrated Analysis. Will you be interested?

uhmm wouldnt having a Naval base attract attacks from the evil people?

;10105704']uhmm wouldnt having a Naval base attract attacks from the evil people?


evil people usually attack soft target like buses, passenger ships, etc.
naval base were hard target...

Photos about foreign-owned ship manned by Philippine Crew -
All Filipinos from Captain (Master) down to lowest rank.


MV Handy River

A Philippine registered Bulk cargo vessel of 22,000 GRT, owned and managed by
Malaysia International Shipping Corp. MISC is owned by Petronas the state oil
corporation of Malaysia. Petronas is owned by Malaysian govt. However in 2002
owing perhaps to political reasons all MISC ships were reverted to Malaysian
Registry. However we still remain onboard the ship since Malaysia lacks officers
and crew on their own Malaysian registered vessels.


A voyage with my wife onboard the MV Handy River.
From Brisbane Australia where she boarded the vessel, to Inchon South Korea,
to Portland Oregon, to Vancouver BC, to Iligan City-Philippines, till Johore Bahru
Malaysia where she disembarked from the vessel after the drydocking.


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Vessel fully loaded with cargo, now on deep draft.


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Wife at the helm (steering wheel) of the ship.


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She is looking at the ship's Radar.


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Wife taking a compass bearing of a target .


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At the promenade deck looking at the poop deck.


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Ship leaving a port.


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Boat / Abandon ship drill.


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Fire & Emergency Drill's demonstration of safety appliances by the Chief Mate and Chief Engineer. They both hails from Cebu.


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Light moment onboard during Saturday's Barbecue Party.


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Vessel in port at Inchon, South Korea


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Vessel in port at Inchon, South Korea - my korean-looking wife


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Vessel in port - somewhere in Oregon river - USA


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Vessel transiting Oregon River after loading wheat in bulk cargo from Portland, next port is Vancouver BC.


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Vessel in port at Vancouver BC, Canada


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Canada Place at Vancouver BC


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Vancouver Bc


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Vancouver BC


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Vancouver BC


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Vessel in port - Vancouver BC


After leaving Vancouver we proceeded to Iligan City in the
Philippines to discharge the wheat in bulk cargo. After a week
in Iligan we proceeded to Johore Bahru, Malaysia for vessel's
drydocking.


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Vessel at a Malaysian Drydock and Shipyard
On arriving at the Shipyard, our vessel was fitted to a submerged
craddle with wheels, then hydraulic jacks lifted our vessel
(weight of light ship 10,000 tons) to make the craddle in line with
the wharf's railroad track. Then our ship was towed by a motor
tractor to the shipyard ground.


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Vessel completed the major repair, anchors were still on the ground and
preparing to haul up.


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Vessel completed drydocking and now docked, waiting for sea speed trial.


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The Admiral of the ship


My wife disembarked from the vessel before the sea trial and I sent her off
at Johore Bahru Airport for her return trip to Manila.

Dang another big Gov't fiasco...Ano ba to!

SPECIAL REPORT: Poro Point

Investors disturbed, officials scared by Poro Point conflict
Manila Times / Sunday Times
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2006/oct/15/yehey/top_stories/20061015top1.html

TWO months after police commandos swooped down on the Poro Point container port premises to disperse workers protesting a government takeover, Filipino and foreign investors continue to question the government policy and express doubts about the administration investment-welcome program.

In particular, the business sector, led by Bulk Handlers Inc., is questioning the intrusion of the Bases Conversion Development Authority into the Poro Point operations and its meddling with a seven-year-old contract to run the port.

The cast includes not only the BCDA and its subsidiary, the Poro Poro Point Industrial Corp., but the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the Philippine Ports Authority, the Philippine National Police and local governments.

All have their say about the controversy at the historic port, whose history began with the US military administration, and it prospered with the termination of the Philippine-United States Military Base Agreement.

Shortly after the Philippine government abrogated its bases treaty with the United States in 1991, it embarked on an ambitious program to redevelop the former military facilities into commercial, industrial and tourism hubs.

The development efforts were on track (witness the former Clark Air Base and the former Subic Bay Naval Base) and had been attracting foreign investments until a contract dispute involving Poro Point—where the former Wallace Air Station of the US military used to be based—erupted two months ago.

This dispute has served to dampen investor confidence in the country.

The Manila Times columnist Dan Mariano interviewed one of the principals in the controversy last month—Narciso Abaya, president of the Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA). Mariano said that Abaya was “caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place.”

Why so? Mariano wrote that Gov. Luis Singson of Ilocos Sur—“along with his kinsmen and allies on the boards of the BCDA and the Poro Point Management Corp. (PPMC)”—has been pressing for the nullification of a contract with Bulk Handlers Inc.

The BHI is the private operator of the Poro Point port and bulk terminal on the strength of a 25-year contract. In 1999 the PPMC and the BHI formed a joint venture, Poro Point Industrial Corp. (PPIC), to manage the port and build an industrial park in the former US naval base.

So far, so good. But Singson, as Ilocos regional development officer, has described the PPMC-BHI contract as “a sweetheart deal grossly disadvantageous to the government.”


‘Live contract’

The BHI insisted it has a “live” contract with the PPMC. Even BCDA’s lawyers, notably general counsel Arnel Casanova, could find no legitimate cause to discard the deal—despite “pressure from an influential person.” In an interview with Mariano, Abaya said moves to cancel the BHI-PPMC contract began “long before I became BCDA president” in 2004. Those moves were foiled time and again by the BCDA legal department, which maintained the contract to be “valid with some defects, but not fatal.”

Last January the PPMC board of directors—chaired by Filadelfo Singson Rojas, who also chairs the BCDA board—passed a resolution declaring its joint venture with BHI void from the beginning. When the PPMC, as a BCDA subsidiary, brought its resolution to its “mother” board, Abaya advised PPMC president Felix Singson Racadio to first get the opinion of the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel. The OGCC affirmed the validity of the contract.

Abaya said he told Racadio that the BCDA could not endorse PPMC’s bid to revoke the port management deal, unless the government corporate counsel reverses itself on the matter. But although Abaya claims to recognize the validity of the contract, the BHI suspects the subsequent charges that it has violated environmental laws were designed to achieve the same objective—kick it out of Poro Point.

Sometime last April Mayor Mary Jane Ortega of San Fernando, La Union, ordered city officials to monitor compliance with environmental laws in the entire city, including Poro Point. What the city monitors found at the port, Abaya said, were violations that included discharging wastewater into the sea, petroleum spillage and the storage of coal near the water line. Ortega not only accused the Poro Point Industrial Corp of violating environmental laws, Abaya said, but also asked the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to look into the Poro Point port operations.

According to Abaya, the DENR inspectors found that the PPIC had yet to secure a environmental compliance certificate (ECC) since it began operating.

On August 4 the DENR regional office issued a cease-and-desist order (CDO), directing the PPIC to halt operations until it secures an ECC and complies with environmental laws. The dispute came to a head. Abaya said he asked the Philippine Ports Authority to take over Poro Point and ensure the continued operation of the port despite the CDO slapped on PPIC.

Some 70 vessels berth at Poro Point every month, he said, loading and unloading cargo vital to the Ilocos region’s economy. Also, Poro Point employs about 2,000 stevedores who would lose their livelihood if the port stops operating. On August 5, Abaya said, PPIC personnel barricaded the port gates. BCDA officials notified the PPA, whose operatives disarmed PPIC guards, “in order to avoid the possibility of bloodshed.” The BCDA also sought the help of the Philippine National Police, which deployed men of the Regional Special Action Force to disperse PPIC workers who were protesting PPA’s takeover of Poro Point.

Why it had to take police commandos to conduct the dispersal was not made clear. But Abaya did say: “Some scuffling occurred on August 7 and 8. The windshield of a truck was destroyed, but nobody was seriously hurt.”

On August 21 San Fernando Regional Trial Court Judge Robert Cawed issued a temporary restraining order directing the PPA to lift its takeover of Poro Point. The 20-day TRO had little practical effect, however.


Order affirmed

At about the same time, the DENR reaffirmed its CDO stopping the PPIC from further operating at Poro Point until it secures an ECC and complies with environmental laws. On August 25 Judge Cawed issued another order, this time declaring a permanent injunction on the BCDA and the PPMC from taking over the port and allowing the BHI to resume operating. But, sources said, PPMC officials have refused to honor the bench’s directive. Result: port operations remained paralyzed. BHI officials, meanwhile, are reportedly planning to ask Cawed to cite the BCDA and the PPMC for contempt of court.

In the interview, Abaya said that he continues to recognize the PPMC-BHI contract as valid and that he will not allow himself to be coerced into thinking otherwise. “I cannot be influenced by any person in the discharge of my duties,” said the former AFP chief of staff and West Point graduate.

Despite the bad blood the dispute may have created, Abaya said he was still willing to sit down with the BHI and settle their differences. “All they really need to do is to comply with the environmental laws.”


Businessmen protest

The stalemate has led local businessmen and foreign investors to rethink their options.

An official of the Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines who declined to be named asked: “Are we back to the days of the Marcos era when powerful politicians with links to the military and police and maybe even the underworld can push aside legitimate industrialists and businessmen?”

The head of the commercial and industrial office of a European embassy said: “We thought the NAIA 3 fiasco was a one-time debacle for Philippine government trade and industry relations. We thought they would learn to be more careful. But they seem not to learn their lesson at all.”

The Philippine country representative for a big Dutch-EU bank, a Filipino, said: “It’s the same thing that the Marcos cronies did to drive away foreign investors. This matter and many other instances make it very difficult for me to give my one hundred percent support for projects that our banks’ European clients are enthusiastic about. I can never be sure that even after contracts have been signed and carried out for some years, some big fish who has power over the government or who has relatives in government will suddenly have the contract rescinded or nullified.”

Asked if the Poro Point conflict disturbed him, Michael Wooton, chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce Philippines, said, “This is the Philippines. I think people are aware of this sort of risk in the Philippines and it is no surprise. If people are seriously considering investing in the Philippines they should do their research to know the risks. This could be another case of Piatco, which is not good for foreign investors.”

Does he have unsolicited advice to give the administration? He said, “Be consistent, open up a little bit but not to give away sovereignty. Be just a little bit more open to foreign business interest. But be consistent. Don’t change the rules in midstream.” He does not want government and government agencies to suddenly rescind contracts.

Similar words come from the European Chamber of Commerce and Industry, whose Henry Schumacher says conflicts like this could be “an indication that the government does not have the ability to honor its contracts. The government must stick to its policies and decisions and not change these in mid-stride. It’s very detrimental to foreign investor confidence in the country. The Philippines must honor its contracts, and not change the rules of the game so suddenly.”


Flip-flop

Robert Sears of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) said, “The Philippines must stop flip-flopping on policy issues.”

An American businessman who did not want to be named said, “It’s worse when it is the subsidiary of a government body that granted the contract that attacks the winning bidder. Bulk Handlers Inc. has been running Poro Point as a partner of the government for some years. Why are they suddenly finding fault with it?”

Businessmen and industrialists in the Ilocos region, including Baguio City and La Union itself where Poro Point is located, are flabbergasted because they don’t know what is going on and can’t make heads or tails of developments.

They see something similar to the sudden removal of the Sobrepeña group from the Camp John Hay project.

Quite expectedly, Left-leaning Party-list Rep. Teodoro Casiño of Bayan Muna took a swipe at the Arroyo administration on the Poro Point issue: “The Poro Point mess is a classic example of how the government is being used to protect powerful vested interests to the point that authorities deliberately skirt or trample upon laws and government regulations. This is bureaucrat capitalism pure and simple—the blatant use of political power in order to advance one or another faction of big business and landlord interests. Both parties may be guilty of this, it’s just probably that one is more brazen than the other.”


Rosier view

Pro-administration Rep. Antonio Roman of Bataan’s First District, member of the House Committee on Bases and Conversion, takes a more pragmatic view: “In general, everyone, particularly investors, expects and appreciates stability of the contracts he enters into. In fact, by constitutional provisions no law shall be passed impairing the obligation of contracts. Again, in Civil Law the terms of a contract have the force and effect of law between the parties provided, of course, that the same is not contrary to law, public morals or policy, customs, etc.

“If the BCDA did what it reportedly did, it must have been based on something legal . . . Let the court decide.”

Lilia de Lima, director general of the Philippine Export Zone Authority, presents a somewhat rosier view.

“We are pushing for the declaration of the Poro Point Freeport as a PEZA-administered zone to enable locators to avail themselves of incentives.”

She adds, however, that the BCDA-PPIC squabble is a separate matter altogether.

“We are merely trying to give prospective investors access to incentives when they want to set up shop in Poro Point.”


Officials afraid to comment

Our reporters tried to get statements about this issue from various government officials whose offices are involved in dealing with investors. Most of them refused. They frankly said it scared them to be talking about the Poro Point conflict.

An undersecretary of finance was brave enough to be quoted. Said Gil Beltran: “Usually investors have already included prices to cover setbacks like that [government contracts not being honored]. Investors know that contracts in developing countries are not cast in stone as they are in the developed countries, and they have already considered these management risks.

In emerging economies you cannot expect a perfect setting. Despite the risks, foreign investors still go to developing countries because the potential for growth is big, whereas in developed economies the growth of businesses is only around 2 to 3 percent.

“Look at China. Foreign investors still go in despite the situation [of political problems and the bureaucracy] because economic growth is very fast. In the Philippines, foreign direct investors come and would continue to come—despite setbacks [like contract controversies]—if we maintain fiscal improvement and economic growth.”


Master plan

In 1994—two years after the departure of the last American warship from Subic Bay, the John Hay-Poro Point Development Corp. (JPDC) was established to oversee the combined development of Camp John Hay in Baguio City and Poro Point in San Fernando, La Union.

In 2003 management functions for both BCDA subsidiaries were separated to give attention and focus to the development of each property, thus the Poro Point Management Corp. was born.

The master plan was finalized to transform the 216-hectare Poro Point Special Economic Zone into an international container facility and cruise destination. Poro Point’s role in economic development in the Northern Luzon Growth Quadrangle is strengthened by its seaports and airports, making it ideal for commerce, distribution center and export-oriented activities.

In 1997 the Philippine Ports Authority turned over the 15.53-hectare seaport to the BCDA. It underwent renovation to augment its warehousing and transshipment capabilities.

In February 1998 the JPDC also took over the management of the San Fernando airport from the Air Transportation office. The airport will be upgraded to accommodate Boeing 737 and Airbus 300 aircraft.

The seaport is envisioned to be the hub of a multimodal transport system linked up with the airport, the Northern Luzon Railway and the existing trans-Luzon MacArthur Highway. In addition, it will become an important tourism cruise destination.

The courts have been on the side of the BHI and the PPIC. The latest statements from Abaya indicate that he would follow what the justices tell the BCDA to do.

Perhaps he was being swayed by the BHI’s reasoning that it could not do as much as it wanted to do for the development of the Poro Point Special Economic and Freeport Zone, because the BCDA has not given it, as specified in the contract, the complete 84-hectare area for it to develop.

Suddenly, on October 12, Governor Singson filed plunder charges against Abaya and 42 others, including his fellow BCDA officers and those of the Poro Pont Management Authority and the PPIC, as well as past officers of the BCDA, BHI—and the Government Corporate Counsel.

Rail system plan dropped

By VG Cabuag
Reporter

THE Philippines’ leading port operator has dropped plans to establish a railroad system which will transport cargo to and from its Manila flagship terminal, a move intended to solve congestion along roads near the facility.

Besides saying that the proposal may not be viable, Francis M. Andrews, general manager of the Manila International Container Terminal (MICT), said that the company may end up charging the customers too much once the railway system is established.

“It all came down to economics. We can run a train and lose money but that’s not the name of the game. It has to make money,” he said.

While the railway system could decongest the MICT, which handles 1.2 million twenty-foot containers a year, it may also clear up traffic along roads near Manila’s port area, including portions of Roxas Boulevard and Taft Avenue.

According to Andrews, MICT’s initial plans involve container-carrying trains moving in and out of the terminal at least four times daily. However, for the proposal to succeed, not only is the company required to maintain train stations, it also has to ensure that informal settlers will not encroach on the tracks.

He added that shipping companies may not be able to shoulder the high freight costs involving the train service and if they can, the companies may end up subsidizing a system that was intended to make the terminal more efficient in the first place.

Container trucks are being blamed for Metro Manila’s traffic and its poor road conditions.
To decongest the Manila port area, the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has built the
Batangas Port as an alternative facility, especially for shippers coming from south Luzon and the Visayas. The facility is being temporarily managed by Asian Terminals Inc. (ATI).
Besides running its own facility in Manila, publicly listed ATI is a competitor of the International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI), which operates the MICT.

In September, ATI’s temporary permit to run the port was extended by the government after the PPA blamed itself for failing to install equipment to boost traffic in the facility.

http://businessmirror.com.ph/ship01.php

Intl ship firms eye Mindanao

By VG Cabuag
Reporter

THANKS to increased production of farm produce in Mindanao, foreign shipping lines have contemplated calling at the ports of the Philippines’ second-largest island. However, international shipping operators were taken aback by the lack of necessary infrastructure in the region, considered to be one of the country’s poorest.

Since 2003, Mindanao has caught the interest of foreign shipping companies, especially with rising banana production, according to Cecille B. Bitare, American President Lines’ regional director for operations and logistics in the island. Bitare, whose company belongs to the Association of International Shipping Lines, added that other international carriers were also interested in docking at the Davao and General Santos ports.

However, these companies were discouraged after discovering that the two said ports were not deep enough to accommodate large vessels and that these did not have the proper equipment required by ocean-going vessels.

Bitare said that the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), the operator of the two facilities, should roll out the necessary equipment and develop the terminals. While the PPA included both facilities in its modernization plan, it may take until 2010 before any port upgrades are undertaken. Other terminals awaiting upgrades include the Manila North Harbor, South Harbor, Batangas, Iloilo, Cagayan de Oro, Ozamis and Zamboanga.

“If we are going to have a big ship there, it has to be a self-sustaining vessel [with all the gears], otherwise we will have to spend extra and rent the equipment [to load and unload the cargo],” Bitare said. Starting 2003, PPA data indicated that cargo volumes and ship traffic steadily increased in Sasa Wharf in Davao. During the same year, the wharf handled 2.71 million metric tons (MT) of cargo. In 2004, cargo volumes rose to 2.95 million MT and then to 3.28 million MT in 2005.

Ship calls also climbed from 1,206 in 2003 to 1,321 in 2004 and 1,343 in 2005.
However, while the General Santos port initially reported a slight decline, shipment volumes and ship calls are starting to post a rebound.

In 2003, it handled 1.74 million MT of cargo while accommodating 1,113 ships. These numbers dropped in 2004 which saw shipments decline to 1.55 million MT and ship calls to 1,020. But last year, shipments at the port have bounced back to 1.6 million MT with 960 ship calls.


http://businessmirror.com.ph/ship02.php

Celebes sea man tingali na...ahehehehe...

I think we can say that the sea south of Davao Gulf is a twilight zone where
the Pacific Ocean and Celebes Sea meets.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m142/jaime_makabayan/Celebes.jpg

Govt loses in Batangas port
INVESTMENTS MAY NOT BE RECOUPED
DUE TO FACILITY’S POOR PERFORMANCE

By VG Cabuag
Reporter

THE Philippine government may be unable to recoup its investments in the Batangas Port, which is expected to serve as an alternative terminal to Manila, owing to its poor performance, an analysis of the country’s top audit body showed.

According to the Commission on Audit (COA), if the southern Luzon terminal continues to post weak revenues, the P7 billion worth of investments made by the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) may just go down the drain.

“If the world class facility built in Batangas Port is not effectively utilized in the generation of additional port revenues…the PPA may not be able to recoup its capital investment in the project within a reasonable time,” COA said in a report.

Besides underscoring a five-year trend of weak revenues, funds collected by the said port for 2005 even fell short of its target income for the same year.

According to COA’s analysis, earnings of the PPA’s southern Luzon port district have been falling since 2001, except in 2004. Five years ago, the PPA regional office made P251.7 million. In 2002, profits declined to P174.24 million, which further dropped to P146.53 million in 2003. In 2004, earnings went up to P185.93 million but dipped slightly to P171.6 million last year.

The Batangas Port only accounts for about 25 percent of PPA’s Batangas port management office, which then accounts for up to 80 percent of gross income the southern Luzon district office.

For its part, the PPA offered a host of reasons explaining why revenues have gone down. These include irregular calls or ceased operations of major shipping lines including Harbor Star, Supply Oil Field Services, and Batangas Harbor Pilot; the continued decrease in foreign shipcalls, the termination of coal operations, among others.

However, besides being unconvinced of the reasons offered by the PPA, the audit body also said that private terminals were eating up the market as a result of the agency’s demonopolization and privatization program.

“Competition in PMO [port management office] Batangas is not a level playing field,” it said, adding that private ports are charging only half of the wharfage dues being levied by the Batangas Port, while cargo-handling operations in private terminals are not regulated.

This means other terminals, which ate up three quarters of the market in Batangas, could offer lower charges than the tariffs imposed in Batangas Port.

“Under such business environment…it would be difficult for PPA to recover its investment,” it said, adding that PPA should design more specific and result-based activities to achieve its revenue targets.

Cargo handling operations in the Batangas facility are temporarily handled by the publicly-listed Asian Terminals Inc. (ATI), which also manages a port in Manila’s South Harbor.

Earlier, port officials admitted that it had no choice but to extend ATI’s contract after the government failed to install equipment which was supposed to boost shipments in the Batangas port. Officials also said that the port’s weak performance resulted from the lack of infrastructure in southern Luzon that discouraged shipping companies from calling at the terminal.

http://businessmirror.com.ph/ship01.php

I already passed the defense. ^_^ Thanks for all helpful inputs from all you guys here. Everyt little thing helped a lot ^_^


We're just waiting for the diploma anytime soon. Anyways...

I'm officially looking for a job right now.. this week i'll be sending out resumes to archi firms i can locate.

But are we really limited to archi firms? are there other ways to get trained in the practice better than starting out as cad operators? Like in construction firms or somewhere else?

Well, it would be advisable to go work for architecture firms. I actually suggest working for small upstart firms. Your work experience will be more diverse and interesting. But then since it's practically Christmas season, there are not many firms hiring. Make construction firms, suppliers and specially call centers your last option.

Good luck.

Port operator, foreign liner
recommend vessel sharing
ASSET SHARING SEEN TO ENHANCE EFFICIENCY,
INCREASE HARBOR SECURITY

By VG Cabuag
Reporter

BY establishing alliances, local and foreign shipping lines in the Philippines would be able to share assets and in turn, achieve better efficiency for the government and other stakeholders, an international liner and the country’s largest port operator said during a recent transportation seminar held in Manila.

Besides underscoring the importance of vessel alliances, both the American President Lines (APL) Co. and the locally-listed International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) said that the proposal could eventually improve security in local ports.

According to Cecile B. Bitare, APL regional director for operations
and logistics, vessel sharing had long been practiced by international shipping lines, including APL, to enhance efficiency.

“It is also one way to decongest ports in the country as well as cut expenses on costly security measures,” Bitare said during the recent Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation’s intermodal transport seminar. Not only is ship sharing good for the company’s operations, the scheme will also guarantee full vessel utilization, she added.

Amid the terrorist threats, the sharing activities could eventually lead to better security measures among the liners that will carry other carrier’s cargo as they will be forced to know what would be inside the containers, she said.

Currently, APL, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), shares ships with Ocean Overseas Container Lines and Hyundai for its international operations while maintaining several agreements with local shipping lines.

For his part, ICTSI senior vice president Francis M. Andrews said that sharing ship space could also decongest the country’s terminals since this will improve turnaround time per ship and cut waiting time for other vessels.

“In terms of costly investments on security and efficiency, sharing assets is better than building assets,” he added.

However, government is still convincing local shipping companies,
many of which operate their own cargo handling services, to implement cooperation.

The Maritime Industry Authority, which regulates the local shipping industry, said it would implement the said scheme with the Roll-on/Roll-off operators plying the Batangas-Calapan route and other short-haul routes in the Visayas.

Negros Navigation Co. and Lorenzo Shipping Corp. are currently sharing their container yards and other services.

http://businessmirror.com.ph/ship01.php

South Harbor training center
up for renovation, expansion

By VG Cabuag
Reporter

WITH the renovation of its training center at the Manila South Harbor, the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) is expected to expand the facility’s capacity.

Expected to be finished in eight months, the project includes demolition and disposal work, construction of a new mezzanine floor, improvement of the building façade, replacement of old wiring devices and unserviceable waterlines, among others.

Bid documents indicate that the PPA is expected to spend P33.07 million for the upgrade, which would be awarded to a winning contractor by mid-November.

The renovation involves a much bigger plan including establishing its own building which should be situated outside the South Harbor.

Currently, the Philippines’ port regulator occupies the antiquated Marsman Building, near the Eva Macapagal Super Terminal, the passenger terminal building currently occupied by Super Ferry and managed by Asian Terminals Inc. (ATI).

Last July, PPA general manager Oscar M. Sevilla said the agency has received tenders from construction companies, including FF Cruz and Company Inc. and DM Consunji Inc., which offered to build its new head office.

Although it was earlier reported that the PPA would spend P200 million for its new head office, the plan was shelved since 2001, no thanks to the Arroyo administration’s austerity measures.

But this time, according to Sevilla, the PPA will not shell out a single centavo for the construction since ATI will bankroll the project from its P1-billion capital expenditures earmarked for this year.

According to the South Harbor’s master plan, the Marsman Building will be demolished to expand the ATI’s cargo terminal.

The plan includes the container yard’s expansion towards the southern portion, instead of the original proposal to reclaim portions of the port’s northern part, and conversion of the south side berths of Pier 9 into a container berth with ship-to-shore cranes.

The phased developments will ensure the efficient handling of container cargoes in the South Harbor as throughput volume increases from 2005 to 2022, ATI’s plan indicated.

http://businessmirror.com.ph/ship02.php

Port operator, foreign liner
recommend vessel sharing
ASSET SHARING SEEN TO ENHANCE EFFICIENCY,
INCREASE HARBOR SECURITY

By VG Cabuag
Reporter

BY establishing alliances, local and foreign shipping lines in the Philippines would be able to share assets and in turn, achieve better efficiency for the government and other stakeholders, an international liner and the country’s largest port operator said during a recent transportation seminar held in Manila.

Besides underscoring the importance of vessel alliances, both the American President Lines (APL) Co. and the locally-listed International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) said that the proposal could eventually improve security in local ports.

According to Cecile B. Bitare, APL regional director for operations
and logistics, vessel sharing had long been practiced by international shipping lines, including APL, to enhance efficiency.

“It is also one way to decongest ports in the country as well as cut expenses on costly security measures,” Bitare said during the recent Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation’s intermodal transport seminar. Not only is ship sharing good for the company’s operations, the scheme will also guarantee full vessel utilization, she added.

Amid the terrorist threats, the sharing activities could eventually lead to better security measures among the liners that will carry other carrier’s cargo as they will be forced to know what would be inside the containers, she said.

Currently, APL, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), shares ships with Ocean Overseas Container Lines and Hyundai for its international operations while maintaining several agreements with local shipping lines.

For his part, ICTSI senior vice president Francis M. Andrews said that sharing ship space could also decongest the country’s terminals since this will improve turnaround time per ship and cut waiting time for other vessels.

“In terms of costly investments on security and efficiency, sharing assets is better than building assets,” he added.

However, government is still convincing local shipping companies,
many of which operate their own cargo handling services, to implement cooperation.

The Maritime Industry Authority, which regulates the local shipping industry, said it would implement the said scheme with the Roll-on/Roll-off operators plying the Batangas-Calapan route and other short-haul routes in the Visayas.

Negros Navigation Co. and Lorenzo Shipping Corp. are currently sharing their container yards and other services.

http://businessmirror.com.ph/ship01.php

sa akin lang, tila ito ang isang industriya na dapat pagtuunan ng pansin at ng puhunan (gaya ng nabanggit ko sa isang thread). huwag na nating hintayin na matulad ang industiyang ito o ang ilang industriya pa na mamatay gaya ng textile industry natin. maraming pilipino ang umaasa sa shipping industry. paano na kung tuluyan itong mamatay? isang dagok ito sa imprastraktura ng bansa.

Agency eyeing loans from Chinese lender
FUNDS TO BANKROLL OPERATORS’ NEW SHIP ACQUISITIONS

By VG Cabuag
Reporter

THE agency extending financial assistance to the Philippine shipping industry is eyeing loans from the China Export-Import Bank (Eximbank) to hike funding for operators interested in acquiring new vessels.

Teodoro R. Villanueva, president and chief executive officer of the Maritime Leasing Corp. (MLC), said that the agency needs to have more fund sources since applications for ship financing are already piling up.

Although he did not specify the amount they plan to borrow from the Chinese lender, he said that the agency has about P10 billion worth of applications from operators, which intend to buy new ships of varying sizes.

“What we have right now are just some extra funds from the NDC (National Development Co.) Bonds. So we need more funds to accommodate more applications,” said Villanueva, who heads the former Maritime Equity Corp., a subsidiary of state-owned NDC.

According to Villanueva, the P10 billion worth of applications is only a fraction of the estimated P930 billion needed to develop and modernize the domestic fleet until the year 2015.

Earlier, he said that the MLC also eyed up to $1 billion worth of official development assistance from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) within 5 years.

“In five years, we were supposed to have lent out $1billion to the local shipping industry. To achieve that, we would have to disburse P5 billion per year,” he said earlier.

The amount comprises more than 4,000 newly-acquired vessels of all sizes with total capacity of 4 million tons.

In its study of the country’s shipping industry, the JBIC indicated that the Philippines, unlike Japan and Indonesia, has yet to practice an alternative ship finance scheme needed to jumpstart the stagnant industry. The said scheme requires no collateral and provides financial and technical assistance services from ship construction to procurement to operation phases.

By virtue of its mandate, the MLC is currently implementing the said ship financing scheme by disbursing the bulk of funds needed to acquire new vessels until the operator is able to pay for it. The JBIC said that such a scheme is good for small to medium-sized shipping firms.

Coast Guard intensifies efforts
to lobby for financial independence

By VG Cabuag
Reporter

THE Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said it would intensify lobbying efforts for a law creating its own charter which will also give it financial independence.

In a statement, the PCG said that efforts to push for the law’s passage must be sustained “especially now that it is already recommended for plenary,” a process which will allow legislators to vote on the proposed law.

According to the same statement, the absence of an enabling law since its transfer from the Philippine Navy to the Department of Transportation and Communications has “impeded the organization’s effort to expand and modernize.” It added that having its own charter would give the agency its own “identity.”

Earlier, senior PCG officials said that limited resources have caused the agency’s inability to determine its expansion.

“We need the Philippine Coast Guard law to be enacted by Congress because that will dictate how far our modernization would go,” PCG vice admiral Arthur N. Gosingan said.

A plan to upgrade PCG vessels has failed to take off owing to the lack of funds from the national government. A single coast guard vessel could reach hundred of millions of dollars due to the specifications needed.

A few years ago, the PCG acquired a previously-owned vessel from Australia worth $30 million. However, industry sources said that the ship was sub-standard.

Established in 1967 as the Philippine Navy’s law enforcement arm, the PCG’s earlier responsibilities included testing and licensing seamen and vessels, providing navigational aids, and protecting life and property at sea.

Many of these functions were later delegated to other government agencies when the coast guard was subsumed under the DoTC in 1998 through executive order 477.

ICTSI gets $120-M ‘shopping’ fund

By VG Cabuag
Reporter

PORT operator International Container Terminal Services Inc. is poised to start its planned aggressive overseas expansion after getting hold of a standby facility it would use for the acquisition of other terminals across the globe from a consortium of international banks.

This is the first time that the company went to the international syndicated loan market, forced to do so after funds from the local market limited its vigorous expansion plans abroad.

The company said in a statement the 19-bank consortium led by ABN AMRO Bank has given it $120-million stand-by credit, higher than its expectations of just $80 million.

“We are a robust group, looking to capitalize on our proven know-how and expand aggressively internationally over the short to medium term and this new financial ‘war chest’ will undoubtedly help us to achieve this important goal,” said Enrique K. Razon Jr., chairman and president, in the statement.

“This [standby credit] was heavily oversubscribed, hence we upsized the deal in response to the very strong demand,” it added.

The company did not indicate where it will use the funds, and only said “we are looking forward to signing a new container terminal concession soon. We have other interesting projects in the pipeline.”

ICTSI maintains an overseas portfolio of terminals in nations on four continents—in Poland, Brazil, Madagascar, and locally. It recently bid for port facilities in South Asia, including those in India and Pakistan.

The other banks in the consortium are Calyon, DBS Bank Ltd., HSBC, KfW, Standard Chartered Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., Bank of China, Citigroup, Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd., Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, and PT Bank Negara Indonesia Tbk, DnB NOR Bank ASA, Mega International Commercial Bank Co. Ltd., The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. (Singapore Branch), The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (Manila Branch) Chinatrust (Phils.) Commercial Bank Corp., Moscow Narodny Bank Ltd. and State Bank of India, (Osaka Branch).

ICTSI reported a consolidated net income of P852 million for the first half of the year, 26 percent higher from last year’s P677 million.

The contribution of its foreign operations to its net income has increased to 39 percent for the second quarter, but revenues from its local operations are shrinking. The company said it is disappointed with the way its local operations is heading.

Europe firm put off by local operators
EURO PACIFIC AXIM TO FOCUS ON INTL CLIENTS INSTEAD

By VG Cabuag
Reporter

NO thanks to the Philippine shipping industry’s lukewarm reception, a European engineering company will no longer sell vessels locally nor will it help finance domestic purchases. Instead, it will focus its activities on the international market.

According to Euro Pacific Axim Inc., for the last three years—or even before the Domestic Shipping Development Act was passed in 2004—the engineering company has been trying to convince local operators to undertake their refleeting programs.

However, Jeremias Simon, the company’s managing director and chief executive, said that many shipping companies were lukewarm to their proposals—which included ship financing—and instead preferred to acquire previously-owned vessels from abroad.

“It was Marina [Maritime Industry Authority] who convinced us to come in. They are the ones who asked us to help them and who have worked with us to look for a solution,” he said, referring to a government plan to perk up the shipping industry by discouraging operators to import used vessels.

However, since Euro Pacific is expected to have its new shipyard in Zambales, the company will have to focus on international markets, such as Indonesia and some European countries.

Simon said that while prices for brand-new vessels were cut by half, these can only be used locally owing to certain regulations covering ocean-going fleets.

Earlier this month, shipping operators F.J. Palacio Lines Inc Phil Harbor Ferries Inc., and Manila Maritime Management have signed individual agreements with Euro Pacific for the purchase of several brand new ships.

Currently, Euro Pacific is talking to three more operators for the acquisition of vessels and battleships.

To be constructed either in Colorado Shipyard in Cebu and Seafront Shipyard in Bataan, the vessels will use a ship designs based on German technology. Management and supervision for these projects will also come from Germany.

Euro Pacific, a partner of Axim Ltd. in the United Kingdom and Axim Germany, was established in the country as general engineering company, focusing on renewable energy, maritime transportation, and environmental protection.

Govt approves x-ray acquisition

Rommer M. Balaba
Reporter

TO further support the streamlining of customs operations, the Philippine government’s investment body recently recommended that the P5.98 billion Non-Intrusive Container Inspection Systems Project II be approved.

The project, which involves the purchase, installation and operation of 20 mobile x-ray units in major customs areas, is being proposed for Chinese funding payable in 20 years, inclusive of a 5-year grace period and at an annual interest rate of 2 percent.

Documents obtained by Business Mirror indicate that three x-ray machines would be deployed in the South Harbor and the Manila International Container Ports while two units would be deployed in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.

Meanwhile, ports in in Cebu City, Subic, Batangas, San Fernando, Legaspi, Iloilo, Tacloban, Suriga, Cagayan de Oro, Zamboanga, Davao and Clark would receive one each.

Technical specifications likewise indicate that the machines are capable of scanning at least be 20 forty-foot containers and vehicles or 17 full forty five-foot containers and vehicles per hour in a single pass.

“The penetration levels for all the units are uniformly pegged at minimum two hundred and seventy millimetres (270 mm) steel plate. The units have the same set of Radioactivity Monitors intended for detecting the presence of gamma and neutron sources,” the documents added.

Color-coded images provided by these x-ray units would indicate whether shipments have bombs, firearms, and contraband.

Of the almost P6 billion cost, an estimated P5.2 billion would cover the equipment, scanning area preparation, parts and services, training and freight and insurance while duties and taxes comprise P0.78 billion.

“The total net cash flow for 20 years is estimated to be P13.699 billion,” the ICC papers noted.

However, the Investment Coordination Committee (ICC) noted that finance officials should ask the Chinese government to cover the P18.22 million cost of training.

taken from philstar.com.. hmmm.. cant wait to see what this looks like..

Pasig River ferry service set for launch next month
By Ma. Elisa P. Osorio
The Philippine Star 11/13/2006

The Pasig River is poised to become a major commuter route once more as a new ferry service project starts plying the Manila-Marikina route by next month.

According to Narcissa Briones, project development officer of the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission, the ferry ride is expected to be a cheaper and quicker alternative to land travel.

"The travel time from Napindan (Marikina) to Intramuros (Manila) will be reduced by 30 to 35 minutes," Briones told reporters during the Pasig River tour.

A soft launch is scheduled next month while full commercial operations will start June next year.

A total of 12 air-conditioned passenger- type ferries will ply the entire Manila to Marikina route. For the soft launch, two of the 150-capacity ferries will be ready to service commuters.

Briones said they expect an average of about 42,400 passengers to use the ferries daily. The ferry service will operate from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The fare, Briones added, is relatively cheap at P2.25 per kilometer. Roughly, she said this translates to a P30 fee for the entire Marikina to Manila route.

The ferry will have 14 stations: Plaza Mexico, Escolta, Quezon Bridge, PUP, Sta. Ana, Lambingan Bridge, Valenzuela, Hulo, Guadalupe, San Joaquin, Napindan, Marcos Bridge, Riverbanks and Sta. Elena.

Briones pointed out that security measures in all the stations will be very strict because the ferry will pass by Malacanang Palace, the country’s seat of power.

"Passengers will pass through a metal detector," she noted. Also, she said the ticketing system of the ferry will be similar to those used by the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system.

Meanwhile, to ensure the safety of all passengers, Briones said each ferry will have a member of the Coast Guard on board the entire time. Furthermore, lifejackets will be provided to all commuters.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has helped finance the clean-up of the Pasig River in order to make it a conducive channel for transportation.

In a statement, ADB said it has released $176 million in financial assistance to help restore the environment and realize the river’s socioeconomic development potential.

The investment components include measures to relocate informal settlers, establish and develop 10-meter wide environmental protection areas along the riverbank, upgrade infrastructure, and eliminate illegal dumping of municipal solid waste into the river system.

Is there any proposal for a waterway route thru Laguna Lake to ply Manila to Laguna as an alternative way to the ever congested South expressway and southern national roads. :wink2: :yes:

^^ actually, there was once a ferry service from the pier at Los Baños all the way to [God knows where in] Manila... the service stopped, i dunno when, probably 2001, but i heard... [chismis, hehehe] that there are plans to revive it.

Presenting the highly acclaimed transpo and shipping company in Asia:

Euromoney poll picks ICTSI as Asia’s best
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/front05.php
By VG Cabuag
Reporter

LOCAL port giant International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) was adjudged the top transport and shipping company for Asia, according to the latest survey of the London-based magazine Euromoney.

The magazine’s best Asian companies poll 2006 said the Razon-led ICTSI was the top pick of Asia’s leading market analysts in the transport and shipping industry category as “having the most convincing and coherent strategy.”

It said ICTSI garnered 22.86 percent of the total survey points, slightly higher than China Ocean Shipping Company’s (COSCO) 20 percent, and China Merchant Holdings’ 11.43 percent.

For the study, Euromoney asked market analysts at leading banks and research institutes in Asia to nominate the top three companies in each of the countries or sectors they covered.

The results are presented as a percentage of total points received in each category together with the number of companies that received points in each group.

Euromoney noted that the companies topping the 2006 Asia’s best- managed firms are no exception to companies that have faced significant business challenges in order to prosper across the business cycle and consistently produce solid returns. It adds that the same companies are “those that win out in the end and are the most likely to produce consistent long-term return for shareholders.”

In 2005 Asiamoney also listed ICTSI as the best among Philippine companies for operational efficiency, most improved financial management and most improved web site. It was also cited by Deutsche Bank as the “best valued port operator in Asia.”

ICTSI manages 10 smaller container terminals in seven countries, including in Poland, Indonesia, Madagascar, and Brazil.

Its flagship operations, however, remained in the Philippines--the Manila International Container Terminal, which dominates the cargo handling market in the country’s shipping hub.

ICTSI posted P464 million in net income for the third quarter of the year as a result of the strong performance of its increasing international portfolio, but its domestic operations remained dismal.

For the nine month period, its net income already increased by 26 percent to P1.32 billion from P1.05 billion in 2005.

“The growth was attributed to strong volumes at the company’s cargo handling operations in Poland and Brazil and new volumes from Madagascar and Indonesia,” the company said.

The company’s foreign operations now account for 59 percent of the quarter’s consolidated net income, compared with 38 percent in the third quarter of 2005, and 36 percent for the full-year 2005. During the second quarter, the share of its foreign portfolio to its net income was only at 39 percent while revenues from its local operations continued its constant decline as a result of negative performance of the MICT.

Hmmm.. not sure there is a thread like this.. anyways let me start this by posting a few pics...

First up is a little port in Tubigon, Bohol, This seaport is only capable of handling mid-size passenger and small cargo ships since the depth of the wharf is only at 20-30 feet. Anyways here's a nighttime pic of one of the ships/boats docked there.

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tagbilaran city, bohol

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tubigon, bohol

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pier 1.. cebu city

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santander, cebu

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san carlos city, negros

thanks for the pics sugbuanon!!

For me, the best sea port is the Batangas city port.. Kuyaw! with those boarding bridges.. i think, it's the only in the Philippines. Even south harbour doesnt have that.

Legazpi City Port
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Cebu shipyards teaming up with Dutch company To start producing double-hulled tankers by '08
http://business.inq7.net/money/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=36204

By Riza T. Olchondra
Inquirer
Last updated 02:11am (Mla time) 12/04/2006

Published on page B7 of the December 4, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer

THE SHIPYARDS ASSOCIATION OF CEBU has tied up with the Netherlands' Damen Shipyards Gorinchem to be able to make four double-hulled black tankers by 2008.

The partnership will allow the eight-member association to meet an expected surge in demand for double-hulled tankers by April 2008, the government's deadline for all tankers to use double-hulled vessels.

SAC president Arthur Uy, who owns Cebu-based Colorado Shipyard Corp., told the Inquirer that the standard delivery time for double-hulled tankers with a deadweight of 3,750 was 16 months.

He said SAC would be ready to deliver the first double-hulled tanker in 16 months, and additional one for every five months thereafter.

Derk M. Herkemij, Damen's sales manager for Asia Pacific, said each double-hulled black cargo tanker would cost between $13 million and $16 million.

The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships is the main international convention requiring international black cargo tankers worldwide to be double-hulled and double-bottomed by 2008, and all interisland tankers to follow suit by 2015. The Philippines wants to follow the 2008 deadline for its 21 interisland black oil tankers.

The urgency was partly spurred by the single-hulled MT Solar I accident off Guimaras last Aug. 11, which resulted in a huge oil spill.

Human error was seen as a major factor in the accident and resulting spill, not the lack of a second hull, but maritime authorities and shipping companies have since agreed that the extra security provided by double-hulled and double-bottomed tankers would be worth the $10- million to $15-million investment per vessel.

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brother bonixx how about the lucena dalahican fish port and terminal?

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PORT OF CEBU

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brother bonixx how about the lucena dalahican fish port and terminal?

Oo nga, Emerson. Pa-post naman ng photos ng Dalahican Port. Di ba malapit dun ang SM Lucena?

Got this from the net:

Lucena Fish Port Complex

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Location
Located at the Barangay Dalahican, Lucena City which is about 5 km from the city proper, the Lucena Fish Port Complex (LFPC) is one of the major fishery infrastructure projects undertaken by the National Government under the Nationwide Fishing Ports Package I.

Nestled conventionally at the main artery of the Quezon province and considered to be a major commercial center, the LFPC serves to usher in a very bouyant market for fish and other fishery products.

The strategic location of the LFPC and its proximity to some of the major fishing grounds of the Philippines such the Tayabas Bay, Ragay Gulf, Luzon Bay and other fishing grounds contiguous to the Southern Tagalog region, have made the port the fish landing center of the province.

To date, LFPC serves as PFDA's commitment to continuously provide post-harvest infrastructure support to the fishing industry, especially in areas where productivity among the various players in the fishing industry need to be enhanced.

The PFDA, in the spirit of accomodation however, entered into a memorandum of agreement with the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) for the use of its port complexes in the conduct of waterborne commerce and trade in areas where the PPA port facilities are unavailable or congested.

Thus, on July 24, 1995, LFPC opened its facilities to commercial cargoes and passenger vessels to support other economic activities in its area of influence.

In cognizance of the thrust of the government to promote economic progress through the proper utilization and development of resource-rich areas, LFPC will continue to service the fishing industry and other industries as well and serve as a conduit towards the attainment of their goals.


Services
Unloading and marketing of fish both from commercial and municipal fishing vessel
Use of facilities for harbor operations such as drydocking and repair
Provision of fuel, oil, water and ice supplies for product transhipment and other port activities
Lease of Communication facilities, office spaces and raw land for establishment of fishery-related factories
Refrigeration and other post-harvest services including freezing through contact freezer and product preservation using cold storages
Data banking services and information dissemination such as fish prices, species unloaded and volume of unloadings

Major Facilities
Multi-purpose Pier : 105 LM
Banca Landing Quay : 450 LM
Slipway : 150 tons
Breakwater : 39 LM
Winched House : 10 tons
Administration Bldg : 300 SQM
Warehouse : 960 SQM
Market Hall : 1,000 SQM
Market Hall (Annex) : 1,000 SQM
Refrigeration Building : 2,556 SQM
Ice Making Machine : 25 MT
Ice Storage : 75 MT
Daily Ice Storage : 25 MT
Cold Storage (-5) : 50 MT
Cold Storage (-35) : 50 MT
Contact Freezers (3 Sets) : 400 Kgs./cycle
Foundry Shop : 225 SQM
Fabrication Shop : 1,600 SQM
Water Pump House : 40 SQM
Sea Water Pump House : 48 SQM
Elevated Water Tank : 50 MT
Carpentry Shop : 300 SQM
Space for Lease : 800 SQM

Prospective Clientele
Fishing Boat/Vessel Operator Basic Requirement : Filing of Application for Accreditation by PFDA
Documents Required : Commercial Fishing Vessel Licence (CFVL)issued by BFAR; Municipal/City Permit to Operate
Fish Brokers/Consignacions Basic Requirement : Filing of Lease Applications
Documents Required : Municipal/City Permit to Operate and Business Permit
Fish Processors/Exporters Basic Requirement : Filing of Lease Application
Documents Required : SEC Approved Articles of Incorporation and/or Business Permit; Municipal/City Permit to Operate
Other Fish Vendors/Traders and Viajeros Basic Requirement : Filing of Application for Accreditation by PFDA
Documents Required : Municipal/City Permit to Operate and Business Permit
Industrial Users/Investors Basic Requirement : Fishery-Related Industry Proposals
Area Requirement : In Square Meters
Mechanics of Implementation : Lease Build Operate (LBO)

Contact Information

Office of the Port Manager
LUCENA FISH PORT COMPLEX
Bgy. Dalahican, Lucena City
Tel. No. (042) 373-41-01 to 03
Fax No. (042) 373-41-03

Cebu Port (pic from flickr)

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brother bonixx how about the lucena dalahican fish port and terminal?

Ok try kung pumunta dun. :lol: By the Lucena city has three ports Dalahican a Fish port and Cotta Port the first port of lucena and Talao Talao PPA port soon for Expansion for Container Terminal.

Oo nga, Emerson. Pa-post naman ng photos ng Dalahican Port. Di ba malapit dun ang SM Lucena?


Yes Medyo Malapit na kasi ,^^ SM Lucena is in Dalahican Road intersection around 2.5 Kms. away from Dalahican Port.

Got this from the net:

Lucena Fish Port Complex

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Location
Located at the Barangay Dalahican, Lucena City which is about 5 km from the city proper, the Lucena Fish Port Complex (LFPC) is one of the major fishery infrastructure projects undertaken by the National Government under the Nationwide Fishing Ports Package I.

Nestled conventionally at the main artery of the Quezon province and considered to be a major commercial center, the LFPC serves to usher in a very bouyant market for fish and other fishery products.

The strategic location of the LFPC and its proximity to some of the major fishing grounds of the Philippines such the Tayabas Bay, Ragay Gulf, Luzon Bay and other fishing grounds contiguous to the Southern Tagalog region, have made the port the fish landing center of the province.

To date, LFPC serves as PFDA's commitment to continuously provide post-harvest infrastructure support to the fishing industry, especially in areas where productivity among the various players in the fishing industry need to be enhanced.

The PFDA, in the spirit of accomodation however, entered into a memorandum of agreement with the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) for the use of its port complexes in the conduct of waterborne commerce and trade in areas where the PPA port facilities are unavailable or congested.

Thus, on July 24, 1995, LFPC opened its facilities to commercial cargoes and passenger vessels to support other economic activities in its area of influence.

In cognizance of the thrust of the government to promote economic progress through the proper utilization and development of resource-rich areas, LFPC will continue to service the fishing industry and other industries as well and serve as a conduit towards the attainment of their goals.


Services
Unloading and marketing of fish both from commercial and municipal fishing vessel
Use of facilities for harbor operations such as drydocking and repair
Provision of fuel, oil, water and ice supplies for product transhipment and other port activities
Lease of Communication facilities, office spaces and raw land for establishment of fishery-related factories
Refrigeration and other post-harvest services including freezing through contact freezer and product preservation using cold storages
Data banking services and information dissemination such as fish prices, species unloaded and volume of unloadings

Major Facilities
Multi-purpose Pier : 105 LM
Banca Landing Quay : 450 LM
Slipway : 150 tons
Breakwater : 39 LM
Winched House : 10 tons
Administration Bldg : 300 SQM
Warehouse : 960 SQM
Market Hall : 1,000 SQM
Market Hall (Annex) : 1,000 SQM
Refrigeration Building : 2,556 SQM
Ice Making Machine : 25 MT
Ice Storage : 75 MT
Daily Ice Storage : 25 MT
Cold Storage (-5) : 50 MT
Cold Storage (-35) : 50 MT
Contact Freezers (3 Sets) : 400 Kgs./cycle
Foundry Shop : 225 SQM
Fabrication Shop : 1,600 SQM
Water Pump House : 40 SQM
Sea Water Pump House : 48 SQM
Elevated Water Tank : 50 MT
Carpentry Shop : 300 SQM
Space for Lease : 800 SQM

Prospective Clientele
Fishing Boat/Vessel Operator Basic Requirement : Filing of Application for Accreditation by PFDA
Documents Required : Commercial Fishing Vessel Licence (CFVL)issued by BFAR; Municipal/City Permit to Operate
Fish Brokers/Consignacions Basic Requirement : Filing of Lease Applications
Documents Required : Municipal/City Permit to Operate and Business Permit
Fish Processors/Exporters Basic Requirement : Filing of Lease Application
Documents Required : SEC Approved Articles of Incorporation and/or Business Permit; Municipal/City Permit to Operate
Other Fish Vendors/Traders and Viajeros Basic Requirement : Filing of Application for Accreditation by PFDA
Documents Required : Municipal/City Permit to Operate and Business Permit
Industrial Users/Investors Basic Requirement : Fishery-Related Industry Proposals
Area Requirement : In Square Meters
Mechanics of Implementation : Lease Build Operate (LBO)

Contact Information

Office of the Port Manager
LUCENA FISH PORT COMPLEX
Bgy. Dalahican, Lucena City
Tel. No. (042) 373-41-01 to 03
Fax No. (042) 373-41-03


Nice Research Utol ahehehe! Good Job...:cheers:

Cebu Port (pic from flickr)

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Maganda Talaga ang Cebu Waterfront Hotel ,Kelan kaya Magkakatotoo Yung Proposed WaterFront Hotel Dito own By Gaisano's.

^^ you mean owned by Gatchalian? ...baka franchise na lang yan kung ang mga Gaisano ang owner...hehehhe!

^^ you mean owned by Gatchalian? ...baka franchise na lang yan kung ang mga Gaisano ang owner...hehehhe!

Gaisano with Lucena Land corp. yung proposed na waterfront hotel dito siguro nga franchise na lang:lol: ,pero maganda rin yun perspective nya parang mini waterfornt hotel Cebu.

First up is a little port in Tubigon, Bohol, This seaport is only capable of handling mid-size passenger and small cargo ships since the depth of the wharf is only at 20-30 feet. Anyways here's a nighttime pic of one of the ships/boats docked there.

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Tubigon! that's my grandmothers birthplace and hometown:colgate:

I hope the port at Tubigon will be there forever. The name sounds like it will disappear someday.

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galing ng pagkakuha ng calm wave

davao sasa port

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:ohno: wala bang animal-watch sa atin, ... kawawa naman ang mga baboy masyadong pinahihirapan :ohno:
nung dumaan kami sa san carlos

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na lechon paksiw na yan bro hehehe

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tagbilaran city, bohol

akala ko tower...hehehe...

CLEAN AND ORDERLY CEBU SUBPORT

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SEA TRANSPORT (http://news.balita.ph/html/article.php/20070102123058715)

The anticipation of a more dynamic and active trading at the ports as the domestic economy becomes upbeat after the world and regional economies manifested strong signs of recovery prompted the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) to come up with a program that it can implement within the short term and medium term.

The PPA has taken steps to strengthen the Strong Republic Nautical Highway (SRNH), a flagship project of the President that aims to link the islands and reduce the cost of inter-island transportation.

To date, at least 70 of PPA's ports are fitted with roll-on/roll-off (RO-RO) ramps of which 40 percent lie in the geographically dispersed islands of the Visayas while 34 percent lie in Luzon, and the rest or 26 percent, lie in Mindanao.

These do not include the four ports with RO-RO ramps (Caticlan, Calatagan, Lazi in Siquijor, and Roxas) but are yet to be included in the PPA port systems nor the three ports with passenger terminal buildings (Cawit, Roxas and Tilik in Mindoro), but are also in the same position.

Currently, the SRNH which is composed of three major sub-systems, namely, the Eastern Nautical Highway, the Central Nautical Highway and the Western Nautical Highway, has 22 ports that serve as inter-island links for this sea-based artery of the entire Philippine archipelago.

The PPA plans to bid out the international cargo section of the Port of Batangas, Phase II in June 2007. The agency aims to get at least 10 percent of the 40 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) that move to Hong Kong and Singapore.

The international cargo sections of the Port of Batangas is currently operated by Asian Terminal Inc. under a temporary permit.

At present, the port serves as the transport hub of goods in the Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon provinces. It also doubles as a terminal for passengers traveling to and from nearby provinces like Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan.

Other port projects include the Lucena port, 70 percent complete; Lucena Port, 70 percent complete; Balanacan (Marinduque) Port, completed as of April 2006; Cawayan (Isabela) Port, 12 percent complete; Liloan, 60 percent complete while Maasin Port have been completed (both in Leyte); Siquijor Port, completed as of July 2006.