The Infrastructure Sector |
Sea Port
The Insular Port of Tagbilaran is the major port-of-entry in the Province. It
primarily connects the Tagbilaran to Cebu City, the regional capital, which is
only 41 nautical miles and can be reached by fastcrafts in one hour and 30 minutes.
The port of Tagbilaran also connects directly to Manila, Cagayan de Oro City,
Dapitan, Dumaguete City and Siquijor. [Shipping Schedules]
Aside from the commercial port, the city maintains a municipal wharf at Barangay
Manga and a fishing wharf at Sitio Ubos, in Poblacion I. Both ports are used mostly
to fishing boats.
There are more than 20 shipcalls daily mostly the fast ferry boats plying the
routes to Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, Plaridel and Dumaguete City. About 51,000 passengers
disembarked monthly and embarking some 67,000 passengers. In 1994, the average
shipcalls was only 8 a day with some 23,700 disembarking passengers and 31,100
embarking passengers monthly. It is noted that there are more passengers going
out (57 percent) than in coming passengers 43 percent.
Airport
The Tagbilaran Airport which is situated in the northeastern part of the city
is an all weather type of airport intended for short and medium range flights.
It is capable of day and night operation and is equiped with runway lights and
approach lights. The new airport has modern facilities like the control tower,
passenger terminal, crash, fire and rescue unit equipment, a 60 KVA power plant
and a precision approach path indicators.
Prior to the year 1995, the sole air service airline which is Philippine Airlines
serviced Cebu-Tagbilaran and Manila-Tagbilaran routes with a frequency of 2 to
3 flights per day. With the coming of fastferry boats operating between Tagbilaran
and Cebu City the Cebu flights have to be cancelled leaving only the Manila flight
using smaller Fokker 50’s which has limited passenger capacity. But because Fokker
50 flights are not economically viable, PAL phased them out and promised to service
Tagbilaran with bigger 707’s.
In May 2002, PAL resumed its Manila-Tagbilaran route using 737s. The local Air
Traffic Office has complied with PAL's measures including the extension of the
runway. The resumption of PAL flights has brought the number of Manila-Tagbilaran
flights to 17 times a week.
On the other hand, Asian Spirit, a domestic airline company, also services the
Tagbilaran-Cebu and Tagbilaran-Manila routes, and vice-versa, six days a week.
PAL and Air Philippines (also a domestic airline company) have local booking offices
to accomodate reservations and booking for international and domestic flights.
A new airline company, Laoag International Airlines, a domestic airline, started
its 4 times-a-week Manila-Tagbilaran-Manila flight last October 8, 2001.
[Flight Schedules] |
SOURCE:
Socio-Economic Profile: City of Tagbilaran, 2002
(Office of the City Planning and Development Coordinator) |
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