Semana Santa 2023: Thousands hit Cebu ports on Palm Sunday

Morexette Marie B. Erram 04/03/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The holidays are still a few days away but as early as Palm Sunday, thousands of passengers have started hitting ports in Cebu. Data from the Cebu Port Authority (CPA) showed that passenger…

Hundreds remain stranded in Cebu ports due to bad weather

Doris C. Bongcac, Mary Rose Sagarino 12/24/2022

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – Hundreds of passengers continue to crowd passenger terminals in parts of Cebu province hoping to go home to their hometowns today, Dec. 24, and spend Christmas with their families. In San Remegio town…

Cebu port braces for surge in passenger volume as Holidays draw near

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/19/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Cebu Port Authority (CPA) is anticipating more passengers to flock to piers for this year’s Holiday season. CPA, in a statement, said they have already activated their “Oplan Biyaheng Ayos: Pasko 2022”…

Nearly 100,000 passengers left Cebu ports from May 4-7 — CPA

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 05/08/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — About 100,000 outbound passengers filled Cebu ports days ahead of the May 9, 2022 local and national elections. Cebu Ports Authority (CPA) spokesperson Mary Knoll Bolasa said they logged a total of 98,427…

Semana Santa 2022: Passenger volume in Cebu ports up by 53%

Morexette Marie B. Erram 04/19/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Two years since the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the volume of passenger in Cebu ports has started to rebound. The Cebu Port Authority (CPA) recorded a total of 324,931 passengers going in and out…

Thousands flock to Cebu ports for Semana Santa

Morexette Marie B. Erram 04/14/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – With restrictions eased and improving weather, thousands of passengers traveling to their hometowns flocked to various ports in Cebu for the Holy Week.  The Cebu Port Authority (CPA) already accommodated a total of…

Tip of Bohol mayor helps NBI-7 to close fake RT-PCR results business in Cebu City

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 03/19/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A tip from the mayor of Bohol town about the rampant selling of falsified real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain (RT-PCR) results or fake RT-PCR results at P1,500 each in Cebu City ports led…

308 passengers stranded in Cebu ports due to TD Vicky

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/18/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Passengers are now stuck in at least three ports in Cebu as Tropical Depression (TD) Vicky approaches Central Visayas. The weather disturbance is expected in the region in the next six to ten…

20 seafarers avail of CPA’s crew change hub services

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/20/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The new crew change hub services established by the Cebu Port Authority (CPA) on October 18, 2020, has benefitted 20 seafarers after two days of activation. In a statement released by the CPA,…

CPA: Close to 8K passengers left Cebu ports

Morexette Marie B. Erram 08/21/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Port officers in Cebu have recorded close to 8,000 individuals, who have left the island-province. The Cebu Port Authority (CPA), on August 20, announced that a total of 11, 910 locally stranded individuals…

PJ Garcia wants Cebu warehouses checked following Lebanon blast

Rosalie O. Abatayo 08/05/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Representative Pablo John Garcia of Cebu’s Third District has called on port and customs authorities to conduct inspections in all warehouses and storage facilities in Cebu for materials that may pose danger to…

Normal operations in Cebu ports amid COVID-19

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/14/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Amid protocols in place to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), it’s still business as usual for Cebu ports. The Cebu Ports Authority (CPA) made this assurance in a statement…

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