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Cokaliong Shipping Lines

Current logo and House flag
Company type	Private company
Industry	Shipping
Founded	1989; 36 years ago (1989)
Headquarters	Cokaliong Tower, Osmeña Blvd. North Reclamation Area, Cebu City, Philippines
Area served	Philippines
Key people	Chester C. Cokaliong Founder, CEO, & COO Gregoria C. Cokaliong President & Chairperson
Divisions	Cokaliong Forwarding Division
Website	www.cokaliongshipping.com

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

CSLI 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. Through the years, the company has acquired many RORO passenger and cargo vessels traveling the national waters.

Vessels

Current vessels

Current Vessels (15 ships)

Name	IMO	Type	Launched	Maiden Voyage in the Philippines	Tonnage	Length	Breadth	Notes	Image
Ferries
M/V Filipinas Cebu	IMO number: 9048562	Ferry	1993		2727	77.37 m (253.8 ft)	14.00 m (45.93 ft)	She was built in 1993 by Naikai Zosen in Setoda, Japan. CSLI acquired her in 2007 from Ise Bay Ferry or Isewan (Ise-wan) Ferry in Japan, where she was known as the Mikawa Maru. She is the first ship with a computerized engine monitoring system of Cokaliong Shipping. She is able to carry up to 686 passengers.
M/V Filipinas Dapitan	IMO number: 7534555	Ferry	1971		1056	60.99 m (200.1 ft)	12.81 m (42.0 ft)
M/V Filipinas Dumaguete	IMO number: 7535573	Ferry	1961		637	50.10 m (164.4 ft)	11.02 m (36.2 ft)
M/V Filipinas Iloilo	IMO number: 7913830	Ferry	1979		2272	78.47 m (257.4 ft)	14.80 m (48.6 ft)
M/V Filipinas Maasin	IMO number: 8014887	Ferry	1980		2261	77.13 m (253.1 ft)	14.80 m (48.6 ft)	This vessel is under renovation in Trigon Shipyard After the Typhoon Odette.
M/V Filipinas Ozamis	IMO number: 9185566	Ferry	1998		1560	86.90 m (285.1 ft)	14.00 m (45.93 ft)
M/V Filipinas Iligan	IMO number: 7813042	Ferry	1978	2011	3084	79.66 m (261.4 ft)	14.30 m (46.9 ft)	She was built in 1978. She was the former Ferry Fukue that was acquired by Cokaliong Shipping Lines from Kyushu Kaiun in 2011. She has a passenger capacity of 850 pax.
M/V Filipinas Butuan	IMO number: 8125909	Ferry	1982	2012	3086	79.66 m (261.4 ft)	14.30 m (46.9 ft)	She was built in 1982. She was the former Ferry Nagasaki that was acquired by Cokaliong Shipping Lines from Kyushu Kaiun in 2012. She has a passenger capacity of 850 pax.
M/V Filipinas Nasipit	IMO number: 9052886	Ferry	1992	2014	1499	86.95 m (285.3 ft)	13.80 m (45.3 ft)	She was built in 1992. She was the former M/V Taiko that was acquired by Cokaliong Shipping Lines from Nomo Shosen Company Ltd in 2014. She has a passenger capacity of 685 pax
M/V Filipinas Jagna	IMO number: 9162722	Ferry	1997	2016	2997	76.66 m (251.5 ft)	14.50 m (47.6 ft)	Built in 1997, she is the former M/V Eins Soya in Japan, before being purchased by CSLI from Japan in 2016. She can accommodate as much as 625 passengers as well as cargo.
M/V Filipinas Surigao del Norte	IMO number: 9196412	Ferry	1999	2016	3011	76.66 m (251.5 ft)	14.50 m (47.6 ft)	She is the former M/V Avrora Okushiri, the newest acquisition of Cokaliong Shipping, purchased in 2016 and. She was built in 1999, and is the sister ship of the M/V Filipinas Jagna. She is the third vessel to have the third ship in the Cokaliong fleet to have a computerized engine monitoring system. She plies the Cebu-Surigao route.
M/V Filipinas Cagayan de Oro	IMO number: 9211743	Roll-On Lift-off Ferry	2000	2019	3122	85.76 m (281.4 ft)	14.60 m (47.9 ft)	Built in 2000, she is the former M/V Ferry Toshima in Japan. It serves Cebu-Cagayan de Oro and Cagayan de Oro-Jagna (Bohol) route.
M/V Filipinas Mindanao	IMO number: 9238143	Ferry	2001	2020	3810	95.70 m (314.0 ft)	15.00 m (49.21 ft)	She is the former M/V Feelease Soya of Heart Land Ferry, the newest acquisition of Cokaliong Shipping, purchased in 2019.
M/V Filipinas Agusan Del Norte	IMO number: 9938975	Ferry	2021		6555	99.37 m (326.0 ft)	18.00 m (59.06 ft)	A brand new Ropax ferry featuring the first X-Bow/reverse bow on a passenger ferry
M/V Filipinas Ubay	IMO number: 8986470	Ferry	2003	2022	979	65.00 m (213.25 ft)	16.00 m (52.49 ft)	Built in 2003, she is the former Seto II of Shikoku Kisen Co. Ltd. of Japan.
Tugboats
M/T Cokaliong Tug 1	IMO number: 7913012	Tugboat	1979		192	31.50 m (103.3 ft)	8.80 m (28.9 ft)	Built in 1979 (44 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Philippines.
M/T Cokaliong Tug 2	IMO number: 8619170	Tugboat	1987		392	34.02 m (111.6 ft)	9.45 m (31.0 ft)	Built in 1987 (36 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Philippines.

Upcoming Vessels

• M/V Filipinas Bohol - Currently being built in China.

Former Vessels

• M/V Filipinas Surigao (sold to Roble Shipping Inc. and was renamed M/V Sacred Stars).
• M/V Filipinas Siargao - formerly the M/V Gingoog City, originally a fishing vessel converted into a passenger ferry. Purchased from Mr. Co To on March 11, 1991. She was the third vessel bought domestically by Cokaliong. After 5 months of refurbishing/ renovation, she became operational on August 1991. On July 5, 1997, Cokaliong decided to retire her and sold the ship to Ting Guan Trading Corp. as scrap, to finally dispose of the last conventional vessel in its fleet and upgrade it to a full Roro fleet.
• M/V Filipinas Tandag - the company's first ship acquired from Trans-Asia Shipping Lines where she was formerly known as the M/V Asia Philippines. She had a collision with Our Lady of Lourdes, one of Gothong Shipping Lines' Ships.
• M/V Filipinas Dinagat (IMO number: 7227487) - Destroyed by fire while en route from Cebu City to Palompon, Leyte with no casualties on July 23, 2020. The vessel is former Soya Maru No. 2 of Higashi Nihon Ferry of Japan and was acquired by Cokaliong Shipping Lines in 1994.

Ports

Cokaliong Shipping Lines' main port of call is Cebu City. Other ports of call are:

Routes

As of December 2023:

• Cebu - Butuan (Masao)
• Cebu - Cagayan de Oro
• Cebu - Calbayog
• Cebu - Dapitan
• Cebu - Dumaguete
• Cebu - Iligan
• Cebu - Iloilo
• Cebu - Maasin
• Cebu - Masbate City
• Cebu - Nasipit, Agusan del Norte
• Cebu - Ozamiz
• Cebu - Palompon, Leyte
• Cebu - Surigao
• Cebu - Ubay, Bohol
• Cagayan de Oro - Jagna, Bohol
• Dapitan - Dumaguete
• Iligan - Ozamiz
• Nasipit, Agusan del Norte - Jagna, Bohol

Incidents and accidents

• On November 15, 2011, M/V Filipinas Dapitan ran aground at the Port of Surigao City. 363 passengers was rescued and no injuries.
• On around November to Early December 2012, M/V Filipinas Iligan ran aground around somewhere in Southern Misamis Occidental at 1am.
• On July 23, 2020, M/V Filipinas Dinagat caught fire off the coast of Northern Cebu en route to Palompon. As reported, there were no passengers aboard and all 47 crew members were rescued. The fire was placed under control around 10am the next day.
• M/V Filipinas Cebu ran aground at 12:08am on August 9, 2022 in Iloilo. The captain was reportedly asleep. All crew members and passengers were safe.
• On April 21, 2023, M/V Filipinas Cebu ran aground in waters off of the Ozamis Port at around 6pm.
• M/V Filipinas Butuan ran aground in the vicinity of Madridejos, Cebu on October 23 2023 before arriving to Iloilo City. The cause of the vessel to ran aground was by drifting to shallow waters. The vessel recently left the port of Cebu, at around 7PM. All 239 passengers safely disembarked and twere ransported to Kota Park, Madridejos, Cebu.
• M/V Filipinas Cagayan de Oro recently tilted one side around 11:40pm on November 12 2023. after the departure, all crew and passengers were safe.
• In October 9, 2023, M/V Filipinas Surigao Del Norte suffered a liquid chlorine leak, which produced Ammonia. The crew reportedly had trouble breathing inside.

See also

• List of shipping companies in the Philippines
• 2GO Travel
• Weesam Express
• Ever Shipping Lines Inc.
• Aleson Shipping Lines
• Montenegro Shipping Lines

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