Date Published:
January 08, 2021
Thailand-based Regional Container Line (RCL) has launched a weekly service that connects the Visayas and Mindanao regions of the Philippines to Asia and the Middle East via Singapore. RCL’s southern Philippines agent Eagle Express Lines made its first port call to the Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) on 19 December 2020 with the 628-TEU MV Pira Bhum.
A news release from MCT said the service is operated by two vessels and covers the Singapore—Cebu—Cagayan de Oro—Singapore route. The vessels turn in Singapore, which serves as a transshipment hub and provides competitive connections from Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, and Zamboanga to other Southeast Asian markets, the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East, while additionally serving the markets further north, such as the People’s Republic of China and South Korea.
MCT operates the terminal at the PHIVIDEC Industrial Estate in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, which serves as a transshipment hub connecting Northern Mindanao to the Visayas and other parts of the country. The container terminal is about 20 kilometers from Cagayan de Oro.