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Type
  
Private

Total assets
  
₱100 Million

Founder
  
Jose L. Roble

Industry
  
Shipping

Headquarters
  
Cebu, Philippines

Founded
  
20 February 1985

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Website
  
http://www.robleshipping.com/

Roble shipping on fire at ormoc august 15 2015


Roble Shipping Inc. is a Cebu-based shipping line located in Cebu City, Philippines. The company was founded by Jose Roble, a native of Danao City, Cebu. Established on February 20, 1985, it started with a small cargo vessel called MV Marao plying from Cebu to Iloilo containing rice and mixed cargo materials. Roble Shipping Inc. is now one of the major players in the Leyte and Samar routes. The shipping line has seven passenger vessels of which five are roll-on/roll-off vessels, ten cargo vessels and four barges and tugboats.

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The founder and owner of Roble Shipping Inc., Jose L. Roble, died on September 11, 2009 at the Cebu Doctors' University Hospital at the age of 62. All of his sons and daughters now play important roles in steering the company.

The Duranos also helped in the early years in establishing the company.

In 2010, Roble Shipping Inc. will move all its operations to their new headquarters in Pier 7.

Roble shipping line bound to cebu 12 15 14 part 1


Passenger fleet

Current

Roble Shipping's fleet consists of 7 Roll-On Roll-Off vessels

  • MV Wonderful Stars (Flagship)
  • MV Theresian Stars (ex-Cagayan Princess)
  • MV Joyful Stars (ex-Cebu Princess)
  • MV Beautiful Stars
  • MV Blessed Stars'
  • MV Sacred Stars (ex-Filipinas Surigao)
  • MV Graceful Stars
  • MV Oroquitta Stars
    • Former
  • MV Heaven Star
  • MV Ormoc Star

    • Ports of call

    Roble Shipping Inc. main port of call is Cebu City. Other ports of call are Catbalogan City,

    Nasipit and Ormoc City and the towns of Hilongos, Baybay, and Naval.

    Routes

  • Cebu-Ormoc: MV Wonderful Stars
  • Cebu-Hilongos: MV Theresian Stars / MV Joyful Stars
  • Cebu-Catbalogan: MV Blessed Stars / MV Beautiful Stars
  • Cebu-Naval, Biliran: MV Blessed Stars / MV Beautiful Stars

    • Incidents

  • M/V Hilongos Diamond sunk within the Bato, Leyte Port
  • January 3, 2008 - The MV Heaven Star of the Roble Shipping Lines left Ormoc City about 11 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Cebu City port at 3 p.m. The vessel stopped off Isabel town in Leyte at noon. The vessel suffered a mechanical problem after seawater got into its bunker fuel. The company's other vessel M/V Wonderful Stars followed up to M/V Heaven Star's location to tow her.
  • MV Wonderful Star collided with a foreign-owned cargo vessel MCC Sulo at 1:20 a.m. Saturday around 4.5 nautical miles (8.3 km) from Liloan town, some 19 kilometers north of Cebu City. The MV Wonderful Star's port side (left side) catwalk railings were slightly damaged while MCC Sulo's starboard (right) bow had a slight scratch.
  • Last December 2, 2009 - M/V Wonderful Stars had a collision with a passenger cargo vessel M/V Subic Bay 1 of Carlos Gothong Lines. The said vessel had gone sideways and sustained damages estimated to be within P600,000 to P700,000.

    • References

    Roble Shipping Wikipedia
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