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GMA caravan to open P278M Bohol ports to Cebu, Camiguin, CDO

Written by admin on 29 April 2008

AFTER setting up P278M port links in the last seven years for Bohol alone, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) comes Thursday, April 29 to personally lead the caravan that would make history by uniting Cebu, Bohol, Camiguin and Cagayan de Oro in one nautical highway.

By opening the Central Seaboard (CS) of the country’s Strong Republic Nautical Highway (SRNH), inter-island travel and transport in the Visayas and Mindanao becomes one step away.

In Bohol, the two key ports, the one in Tubigon and another one in Jagna have been upgraded with roll-on roll off (RORO) ramps and corresponding back up areas and lighting systems to better serve vessels cruising to and from Cebu City and the different ports of Mindanao, says a report from the Tagbilaran Port Office of the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA).

At the Tubigon Port, where PGMA inaugurates the improved facility, she would meet the RORO caravan with the rest of the country’s top officials and accompanying media taking the run through the newly opened CS of the SRNH.

The country’s top executive arrives however on a helicopter to meet the caravan she sent off in Cebu earlier as the RORO docks at the port facility which has seen P144M improvements since 2002.

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