The Iloilo Strait is a strait in the Philippines that separates the islands of Panay and Guimaras in the Visayas , and connects Panay Gulf with the Guimaras Strait . It is the location of the Port of Iloilo , the third-busiest of the ports in the Philippines in number of ships. Iloilo City on Panay is the major city located on the strait with Buenavista and Jordan , both on Guimaras, immediately across the strait from the city. The Iloilo River empties into the strait.
5-518: Pump boat ferries cross every few minutes from Iloilo City to Guimaras and vice versa. Ships doing business with the Port of Iloilo often moor in the strait. The Port of Iloilo was opened for international trade in 1855 and the coming of British Vice-consul Nicholas Loney , a year later, led to the fast development of the sugar industry in the region. 2GO Travel 's ferry St. Gregory The Great nearly capsized on 15 June 2013, when it struck rocks under
10-595: A report by the Coast Guard station in Iloilo. This article about a location in Western Visayas region is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pump boat A pump boat (usually variation as pambot in local languages) is an outrigger canoe ( bangka 'boat' ) native to Southeast Asia powered by a small gasoline or diesel engine. Smaller pump boats might be powered by
15-597: The sort of small single-cylinder engine used to drive a water pump. Larger ones are often powered by recycled automobile engines. Pump boats are a utility boat in the Philippines, used for nearly everything from inter-island transportation to fishing and even the Philippine Coast Guard . Pump boats are also used by Sama-Bajau migrants and refugees in Sabah, Malaysia and eastern Indonesia (where it
20-526: The two power barges of National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR) exploded spilling an estimated 251,000 liters of fuel by Saturday morning. Nobody was injured, but by Sunday morning, about 400 residents were evacuated amid the spreading smoke from the bunker fuel, according to the Iloilo City Risk Reduction Management Office. Some 179,300 liters of bunker fuel were collected from the water's surface on Sunday, according to
25-735: The water near the Siete Picados Islands . In midday of August 3, 2019, two motor boats "Chi-chi" (43 passengers on board) & "Keziah 2" (with only 4 crews survived) bounded to Jordan, Guimaras were capsized due to strong southwest monsoon winds enhanced by Tropical Depression "Hanna" (Int'l name Lekima) . Several hours after an incident another motorboat from Buenavista, Guimaras named "Jenny Vince" (40 passengers on board) were also capsized due to strong winds. 31 passengers were perished in tragedy including teachers. The incident happened in Friday afternoon (July 3, 2020) where one of
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