No Ferry to Camiguin
No Ferry to Camiguin – Jagna (Bohol) and Cagayan de Oro are off line. OceanJet has stopped their services from Cagayan de Oro to Camiguin and Camiguin to Bohol. Super Shuttle Ferry has stopped...
Category: Ferries & Ports
M/V Catherine – update
Yesterday we informed you that a week ago, a yacht, the M/V Catherine, had been found its crew missing. One of our contacts in Palawan sent us an update at 07:30 a.m. PST. Some corrections:...
M/V Catherine
A week ago, a yacht, the M/V Catherine had been found its crew missing. One of our sources in Palawan sent us the letter below. We publish it without any comment. Only the last sentence...
Camiguin Traffic Jam
The Camiguin – Panaad 2014 ends today with a great traffic jam in the port of Benoni. At 11 a.m. car number 508 queued up in the middle of the dam of the Taguines...
New Arrival and Departure Cards
The new Arrival and Departure cards of the Philippines Bureau of Immigration have been introduced yesterday, March 1, 2014. The Arrival Card Arriving Filipinos no longer have to fill out the new immigration arrival...
NAIA eyes paperless, even ‘queueless’ system
NEW by March 1, 2014: Arriving Filipinos no longer have to fill out the new immigration arrival cards while foreigners, including Philippine passport holders with existing immigrant status, will be required to fill out...
White Elephants and Black Holes
Last Thursday we wrote about the crippled airport project in Laguindingan. Today our friends in Panay found another outstanding project near Kalibo, the “Pook Ecological Tourism Development Project“. Hundred thousands of tourists land every year...
Top Secret Islands – Caramoan and Camiguin
While we are in Camarines Sur and are looking for transportation to the hidden paradise of the Caramoan Islands, we learn that our own little Paradise – Camiguin – got again more secret. The...
Hassle free travel to Boracay
Tourism in the Philippines still lacks of comfort. This not only means bad roads and murderous bus drivers, rusty ferries and endless fees and taxes – this also means loosing a lot of the...
Collision Probe in Cebu Ferry Tragedy
The Marine Inquiry Hearing started begin of this week in Cebu City. The two responsible captains accuse each other for having been on the wrong lane. The captain of the sunken ferry, M/V Saint...
Philippine Coast Guard find more dead in Cebu waters
While the nation and the world is absorbed by the Luyon floods, coast guard and divers work on the sunken ferry M/V St. Thomas Aquinas off the coast of Cebu. This morning at 9:55 a.m. the Philippine...
Cebu Ferry Disaster – investigations ongoing
Steady but rather strong winds from south-east make recovery operations hazardous. The winds are due to an amplified Habagat this because of the double Tropical Depressions in the north of the Philippines. See also...
Ship collision off Cebu City – ferry sunk
Yesterday evening around 8:45 p.m. a passenger ferry and a cargo vessel collided in the waters off Talisay City, Cebu. The 2Go passenger ferry M/V Saint Thomas Aquinas was hit by the Sulpicio-Express Siete cargo vessel....
Oceanjet rides again Cagayan – Camiguin
About 2 months ago Oceanjet interrupted their daily service between Cagayan de Oro and Camiguin. They are back again! We do not yet know if OceanJet is also “jetting” to Jagna again. After a...
E-Tickets are progressing
After the airlines now the shipping lines are moving to paperless tickets. 2Go Travel, born out of brands such as Negros Navigation, Superferry, Cebu Ferries, and Supercat, 2GO Travel has a combined history of...
Severe water pollution in Benoni port
Yesterday vendors in the Port of Benoni, Camiguin sighted an oil spill at the vicinity and immediately reported the incident to the Coast Guard. Ocular inspection and investigation conducted by the Coast Guard personnel verified...
Ferry sunk between Albay and Masbate
The MV Lady of Mount Carmel, a roll-on-roll-off (RORO) vessel, left the port of the town of Pioduran in Albay at around 2 a.m. and was bound for Aroroy in Masbate when it sank...
Not only in the air
The Philippines have once been a technologically rather advanced country with well trained people. But then education got neglected and funds flowed in the wrong pockets. The results are known: Air Transportation: – FAA...
Do not “google” in the Philippines
I wonder when the government will send a letter to Google. Last week they sent a letter to Dan Brown complaining about his comparison of Manila with the “Gate to Hell”. See here Now...
Grounded Chinese fishing vessel not only damaged corals but …
The grounded Chinese fishing vessel in the Tubbataha Reef not only damaged as many corals as the US minesweeper, but had also a very precious but illegal cargo. Photo courtesy of Pangolins.org The Philippine...
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