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Cokaliong Shipping Lines

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Industry
  
Shipping

Founded
  
1989

Headquarters
  
Cebu

Type
  
Privately held company

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Key people
  
Chester C. Cokaliong Founder, CEO, & COO Gregoria C. Cokaliong President & Chairperson

Divisions
  
Cokaling Forwarding Division

Profiles

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Cokaliong Shipping Lines is a shipping line based in Cebu City, Philippines. It operates both passenger and cargo ferries on eight routes between islands in the Visayas and Mindanao regions and is one of the youngest shipping companies in the Philippines.

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It was organized in 1989 by Chester Enterprises, Inc., a textile and ready-to-wear enterprise started in 1969 that diversified into the shipping business with the purchase a vessel from Japan in 1998, christened the M/V Filipinas Ozamis. In May 2012, the company acquired its ninth vessel, a 3,000-ton, 850-passenger vessel from Japan. In March 9, 2013, the line opened its 13th port of call with the opening of Cebu-Nasipit route.

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Vessels

Current

  • M/V Filipinas Cebu (first ship with computerized engine monitoring system of Cokaliong Shipping.)
  • M/V Filipinas Dinagat
  • M/V Filipinas Dumaguete
  • M/V Filipinas Iloilo
  • M/V Filipinas Maasin
  • M/V Filipinas Ozamis
  • M/V Filipinas Iligan
  • M/V Filipinas Butuan
  • M/V Filipinas Nasipit
  • M/V Filipinas Jagna (11th ship of Cokaliong Shipping.)
  • M/V Avrora Okushiri* (Newest acqusition of Cokaliong Shipping.)
  • Former

  • M/V Filipinas Dapitan
  • *Name of the ship as of the moment since the ship is currently in Japan and undergoing process for the ship's transfer of ownership. Once the process is done and shall arrive in the Philippines for retrofitting, she'll be reanamed with "Filipinas" branding like other Cokaliong ships.

    Ports

    Cokaliong Shipping Lines' main port of call is Cebu City.

    Other ports of call are:

  • Maasin
  • Surigao
  • Dumaguete
  • Iloilo City
  • Dapitan
  • Tagbilaran
  • Iligan
  • Ozamiz
  • Calbayog
  • Masbate
  • Palompon, Leyte
  • Nasipit, Agusan del Norte
  • Dapitan City
  • Jagna, Bohol
  • Cagayan De Oro
  • Former ports:

  • Larena, Siquijor
  • Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte
  • Baybay, Leyte
  • Routes

    As of March 2017:

  • Cebu - Surigao
  • Cebu - Maasin
  • Cebu - Dapitan City
  • Cebu - Dumaguete
  • Cebu - Tagbilaran
  • Cebu - Iloilo
  • Cebu - Palompon, Leyte
  • Cebu - Ozamiz
  • Cebu - Iligan
  • Cebu - Calbayog
  • Cebu - Nasipit, Agusan del Norte
  • Cebu - Masbate City
  • Nasipit, Agusan del Norte - Jagna, Bohol
  • Dapitan City - Dumaguete
  • Cebu - Cagayan De Oro
  • Cagayan De Oro - Jagna
  • References

    Cokaliong Shipping Lines Wikipedia