Port of Iloilo
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| Port of Iloilo Pantalan ng Iloilo Puerto sang Iloilo | |
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 Loboc Wharf of the Iloilo International Port | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Philippines |
| Location |
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| Coordinates | 10°41′24″N 122°34′59″E / 10.69000°N 122.58306°E |
| UN/LOCODE | PHILO[1] |
| Details | |
| Opened | September 29, 1855 |
| Operated by | Philippine Ports Authority |
| Owned by | Iloilo City |
| Type of harbour | Natural/Artificial |
| Size | 20.8 hectares (Iloilo International Port and Iloilo Domestic Port) |
| No. of wharfs | 2 |
| No. of piers | 2 |
| Hub For | Negros Navigation (folded to 2GO Travel) |
| Statistics | |
| Vessel arrivals | 11,853 (3rd busiest in the Philippines) |
| Annual cargo tonnage | 491.7 million tonnes |
| Passenger traffic | 2.4 million annually |
| Website www.ppa.com.ph | |
The Port of Iloilo (
Guimaras Island shields the port from violent storms and makes it ideal for harboring ships and vessels.[2]
Location
Iloilo harbor is part of the Iloilo Strait bounded to the north by a line stretching from the Dumangas River across the Iloilo Strait to Navalas Point on Guimaras Island and to the South line extending from the Lusaran Point, Guimaras Island to Surraga River in the municipality of San Joaquin on Panay.[2]
Profile
The Port of Iloilo, considered the leader of trade and a commercial hub for Western
reclaimed land. It includes 11,400 sq. meters of open space for operations, supplemented by an area of 97,000 sq. meters, a crane,[2]
rails of 348 lineal meters; roll-on-roll-off support; a 7,800 container freight stations; and a 720 sq. meter passenger shed. The port complex is ideal for ships plying international routes having a berth length of 400 meters, a width of 26.26 meters and a berthing depth of 10.50 meters.
A number of shipping companies use the Port of Iloilo, including Lorenzo Shipping Corporation,
Pumpboat
ferries cross the Iloilo Strait to Guimaras constantly during the day and on special trips at night.
Roll-on/roll-off ferry service, known as
Dumangas, Iloilo
.
It is ranked third in terms of ship calls at 11,853, fourth in cargo throughout at 491,719 million metric tons and fourth in passenger traffic at 2.4 million annually.[citation needed][when?]
History
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The port has been serving international shipping since at least 1855, handling sugar and fertilizer shipments for the international market. The opening of the Port of Iloilo to the world market on 29 September 1855 by
quay that runs along the Iloilo River
, is named after him.
The sugar industry brought an economic boom to the city and its neighbor island,
Negros, and Iloilo became the biggest center of commerce and trade in the Visayas and Mindanao, second only to Manila.[5] It was the only deep water port for both Iloilo and Bacolod, capital of Negros Occidental which lay 35 miles away across the Guimaras Strait.[6] Therefore, nearly all the trade in sugar and rice from Negros, one of the riches islands in the country, was shipped through Iloilo in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[6]
Shipping firms and destinations
- Cokaliong Shipping Lines: Cebu
- Montenegro Shipping Lines: Cuyo-Palawan, Puerto Princesa
- 2GO Travel: Bacolod, Cagayan de Oro, Manila
- SuperCat: Bacolod
- Ocean Jet: Bacolod
- Weesam Express: Bacolod
- Trans-Asia Shipping Lines: Cebu
- FastCat: Bacolod
- Starlite Ferries: Batangas
Facilities
Bunkers are available from Pilipinas Shell, Petroleum Corporation, Caltex Philippines Inc. and Petrophil Corporation.[2]
Data
| Type | m2 |
|---|---|
| Old foreign pier | 17,000 |
| River wharf | 68,000 |
| Iloilo commercial port complex | 208,000 |
| Back-up area/commercial | 97,000 |
| Operational area | 111,000 |
The Port of Iloilo also offers open storage facilities, data listed below:
| Type | m2 |
|---|---|
| Old foreign pier open storage | 9,200 |
| River wharf open storage | 8,682 |
See also
- List of East Asian ports
References
- ^ "UNLOCODE (PH) - PHILIPPINES". service.unece.org. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h PORT OF ILOILO - General Information
- ^ Sonza, Demy. "The Port of Iloilo: 1855 - 2005". Graciano Lopez-Jaena Life and Works and Iloilo History Online Resource. Dr. Graciano Lopez-Jaena (DGLJ) Foundation. Archived from the original on 2016-01-19.
- ^ Funtecha, Henry (2006-07-21). "Iloilo's position under colonial rule". thenewstoday.info. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
- ^ Iloilo City - History Archived January 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ ISBN 0-7006-1225-4.
- ^ PORT OF ILOILO - Destinations
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