Our eagle-eyed ship spotter: Marco Irvine Kinea has embarked on a journey to capture one of the first and exclusive photos of the latest ROPAX Liner Acquisition of 2GO Travel - M/V 2GO MASINAG fresh from Mokpo, South Korea Photos from Marco Irvine Kinea of PSSS Originally, she was the former FERRY FUKUOKA II of … Continue reading Welcome to the Philippines! M/V 2GO Masinag of 2GO Travel π₯³π₯³
Horizontal integration is the setting up or the acquisition of a company at the same level of the value chain and that is meant to help the company compete. It can be a competitive strategy where economies of scale, more efficiency and increase of market power are the objectives. Companies engage in horizontal integration to … Continue reading Philtranco Always Tried Horizontal Integration
Many, when talking about the Sweet RORO of Sweet Lines Incorporated which is pf Bohol origin talk about her technicals and that is not wrong as there is nothing incorrect in admiring the technical merits of a ship especially that of a luxury liner. But to me I also tend to look at the historical … Continue reading The Sweet RORO
The government ports that were built in the 1980's to connect Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao through the eastern seaboard of the country were not called βportsβ but instead were called βferry terminalsβ. And so it became Matnog Ferry Terminal, San Isidro Ferry Terminal, Liloan Ferry Terminal and Lipata Ferry Terminal. The four actually had a … Continue reading The Matnog Ferry Terminal
These two shipping companies are actually successors of the once-dominant Viva Shipping Lines and its legal-fiction companies Sto. Domingo Shipping Lines and DR Shipping Lines which once dominated the seas of the old Southern Tagalog region before four provinces of it were spun out as the MIMAROPA region. These two companies were founded by the … Continue reading The Blue Magic Ferries and Starhorse Shipping Lines
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