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
A few weeks ago, the liner St. Leo the Great of 2GO Travel plied its last voyage to Davao amid some send-off ceremony. That liner started again the Manila-Zamboanga-General Santos City-Davao route after a request from the Philippine President who changed his mind after saying right after he was elected that Davao does not need … Continue reading 2GO Travel Has Stopped Its Manila-Davao Route
When the early 2010s entered, it was depressing for both the ship spotters and liner passengers. The Sulpicio Lines fleet was basically grounded by MARINA (Maritime Industry Authority), a consequence of the capsizing of the Princess of the Stars in a strong typhoon and the company had begun disposing liners. The Aboitiz Transport System (ATS) … Continue reading The Biggest Shipping Modernization By Far
Growing up I heard tales from my late father how great Tacloban port was. He told me about its importance, its physical dimensions, the location, the size of the bodegas outside it and even its relation to Gen. Douglas MacArthur. I had the idea that Tacloban was the greatest port east of Cebu and my … Continue reading When Eastern Visayas Ports And Shipping Were Still Great
Nowadays, those four liners of the defunct but once great Compania Maritima will no longer ring a bell to most people. Even in the years when the four were still sailing those were not among the best or the primary liners of the said shipping line except for the MV Mindanao which was actually the … Continue reading The Result of the Losses of the MV Leyte, MV Guimaras and MV Dadiangas and the Scrapping of the MV Mindanao of Compania Maritima
After World War II and for a generation after, the Philippines had so many small and short-legged liners. This was dictated by the situation that when the United States replaced our merchant fleet that was destroyed in World War II as was their promise (since they requisitioned our passenger ships then and the others were … Continue reading When Liners Were Still Small and Short-legged
Image from ABS-CBN News This article is actually intended for the reading (dis)pleasure of the likes of Arben Santos, Christopher Pastrana, Alfonso Cusi and Rey Gamboa who in the past three years or so have been attacking old ships as if they are unworthy or worse as thought of βfloating coffinsβ. They try to make … Continue reading Haters of Old Ships Should Train Their Guns on Liners
In the past, before 1980, there was no conflict between the our liners and the container ships. First, container ships did not exist before the late 1970's. Second, before that time, general cargo ships were not many as it is our liners that were mainly carrying the inter-island cargo that should be transported fast and … Continue reading Container Ships Also Sink Our Liners
Once, there were ports that were served by the liners of the national shipping companies in the postwar years. Liners from Manila sailed to these ports and the length of their calls or service already exceeded a century. Now, there are no more liners to these ports and instead intermodal buses are the ones now … Continue reading Ports Served By Liners That Lost To The Intermodal Buses
In Philippine liner shipping, obviously the first time of trouble was when the Pacific War erupted after Japan attacked the Philippines and the United States. Liners were requisitioned by the US on the promise that it will be replaced when the war ends. The order then was if the ship cannot reach Australia it has … Continue reading The Times of Trouble for Philippine Liner Shipping in the Past
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