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Montenegro Shipping Lines: 1978: 66: AFGM Shipping Corp. 2001 23 Ocean Fast Ferries, Inc. (OceanJet) 1995: 16: Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation: 1973: 142: Formerly Sulpicio Lines from 1973 to 2012; changed name and stopped passenger services following the tragic sinking of its passenger ship MV Princess of the Stars in 2008. [4] Roble ...
A balikbayan box (lit. 'repatriate box') is a corrugated box containing items sent by overseas Filipinos (known as balikbayan literally "returnee to the country/nation"). Though often shipped by freight forwarders specializing in sending balikbayan boxes by sea, such boxes are also commonly brought by Filipinos returning to the Philippines via air.
An estimated 800,000 sari-sari stores hold a significant portion of the domestic retail market and the country’s GDP. 13 percent or ₱1.3 trillion of the Philippines GDP of ₱9.7 trillion in the year 2011 came from retail, which is composed largely of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) or small businesses like sari-sari stores.
A typical micro business is a business that employs nine people or fewer, with assets of ₱3 million and below. In the Philippines, about 90 percent of all businesses are categorized as micro businesses. These consist of enterprises engaged in industry, agribusiness and or services, whether single proprietorship, cooperative, partnership or ...
Freight rate. A freight rate (historically and in ship chartering simply freight[1]) is a price at which a certain cargo is delivered from one point to another. The price depends on the form of the cargo, the mode of transport (truck, ship, train, aircraft), the weight of the cargo, and the distance to the delivery destination.
Location of the Philippines. The Philippines is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean. It is a founding member of the United Nations, World Trade Organization, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, and the East Asia Summit.
Port of Manila, one of the world's busiest container ports.. The following is a list of major ports in the Philippines organized by water mass. This list consists primarily of shipping ports, but also includes some that are primarily or significantly devoted to other purposes: cruises, fishing, local delivery, and marinas.
Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation (PSACC), formerly branded as Sulpicio Lines, Inc. (SLI, Tagalog pronunciation: [sulˈpiːʃo]), is a major shipping line in the Philippines. [1][2] PSACC is one of the largest domestic shipping and container companies in the Philippines in terms of the number of vessels operated and gross tonnage.