Two days before the New Year’s Day, more than 109,000 passengers trooped to various ports nationwide to go home and spend the last remaining days of the holiday season with their families. (Photo: PCG) Based on the monitoring of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), a total of 56,425 outbound...
More than 31,000 outbound passengers and 27,000 inbound passengers were monitored by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) in various ports nationwide as of noontime of Christmas Day on Sunday, Dec. 25. (Photo: PCG) Data from the PCG showed that from 6 a.m. to 12 noon, a total of 31,314 outbound...
Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) General Manager Jay Santiago urged shipping line owners to provide free food and water to their respective passengers who were stranded due to delay in the arrival of ferries and due to bad weather conditions in some parts of the country. During his visit to the...
The influx of passengers in seaports and terminals is already evident a little over a week before Christmas Day, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said. Photo: PCG On Saturday, Dec. 17, the PCG monitored 45,271 outbound passengers and 35,554 inbound passengers in all ports nationwide. The monitoring...
CEBU CITY – All ports in Cebu were placed on heightened alert starting Friday, Dec. 16, as the Cebu Port Authority (CPA) activated its “Oplan Biyaheng Ayos: Pasko 2022.” A PORT terminal in Pier 1 in Cebu City is packed with passengers in this May 2022 file photo. The Cebu Port Authority has...
Digitization is the highest priority of the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) at present, General Manager Jay Santiago said. "Once everything is done online, prolonged waiting of passengers will be avoided and inconvenience at trips will be prevented," he underscored. The PPA management staunchly...
Passenger volume in the third quarter this year rose 233.54 percent as travel restrictions eased, the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) announced Wednesday, November 16. Passenger traffic reached 15.71 million from July to September, 2022, up from 4.71 million in the comparative period. Container...
Dividends remitted by the Philippines Ports Authority (PPA) to the government coffers under President Duterte’s watch exceeded the sum it had contributed in more than two decades, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. In a statement, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III on Wednesday, March...
73085 The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) remitted P4.08 billion dividend payment to the Department of Finance, announced General Manager Jay Daniel R. Santiago. The amount remitted Monday, March 21, represents 60 percent of PPA’s P6.79 billion net income for 2021 and is 8.5 percent higher than...
Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade reiterated that passengers going home to their provinces are not covered by the "No Vaccination, No Ride" policy as "returning home" is considered essential travel. (FILE PHOTO / PHILIPPINE PORTS AUTHORITY) This, after Tugade received...
Amid the persistent problems of congestion at the Port of Matnog in Sorsogon, three government agencies have joined forces to finally resolve the recurring issues especially by commuters and businessmen heading to Southern Samar. In a statement, the maritime sector of the Department of...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has required the country’s coal-fired power plants to submit full report of their ‘fuel inventories’, including shipment details that they may encounter if the Indonesian coal export ban is lifted. “We required them (power firms) full reports...the...
