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[edit] Land transportation

Recto Station of the LRT Purple Line in Santa Cruz, Manila

[edit] Main highways

The Balintawak Toll Plaza of the North Luzon Expressway in Caloocan City

Highways

  • Total: 199,950 km
  • Paved: 39,590 km
  • Unpaved: 160,360 km (1998 est.)

Pipelines

  • Petroleum products: 357 km

[edit] Public utility vehicles

The Filipino-made Jeepney
  • Taxi - (Public Utility Vehicle with a taximeter used in Metro Manila and other Philippine major cities).
  • Jeepney - Filipino-made vehicle
  • minibuses - derived from truck chassis
  • Tricycle - A type of Auto rickshaw. A regular motorcycle with additional passenger seating. Designs vary but are usually fairly standard within a municipality. Passenger seating is usually in a side car attached to the right side, but some designs seat passengers in a towed trailer or enclose the motorcycle inside of a body structure. Passenger seating capacity varies for different designs, ranging from two up to seven or more. One or two additional passengers may be seated behind the driver, usually riding sidesaddle on the motorcycle pillion.

[edit] Bus companies

  • Alfonso Liner
  • Altransco
  • ALPS The Bus, Inc. - Operates routes between Batangas and Metro Manila. The company also offers roll-on-roll-off-routes to Ilo-Ilo starting from Metro Manila via Batangas City.
  • Autobus - it started operating in Northern Luzon after it bought some of St. Joseph's buses
  • Baliwag Transit Inc.
  • BBL (Biñan Bus Lines) Transport System Inc.
  • Batangas Laguna Tayabas Bus Co. Inc. (BLTBCo) - one of the oldest provicial bus companies, established since 1918. laguna via Rizal .
  • Cavite Batangas Transport Service Cooperative
  • Cedec Transport
  • CEM Trans. Services Inc. - this bus company was under the Joanna Jesh Group, where it was named after its founder of Joanna Jesh Transport and Nicholas Albert Transport, Crisinciano E. Mahilac, which was founded in 2007.
  • Ceres Liner
  • Dagupan Bus Lines (sister company of Saulog Transit)
  • Dangwa Tranco - serves as a link between Manila, Benguet, and Mountain Province
  • Dela Rosa Transit(sister company of N. Dela Rosa Liner)
  • Dominion Bus Lines - formerly Times Transit, but a strike put it out of business until a company bought its remains from owner Santiago Rondaris and started a new company
  • Eaglestar Transit Corp.
  • Erjohn & Almark Transit Corp.(Operates in Las Piñas, Cavite and Batangas, also sister company of Tas Trans and San Agustin)
  • Farinas Transit Company
  • Federico Franco Lines (Franco Trans)
  • FiveStar
  • G Liner - the bus company owned by the de Guia family. It operates routes from Taytay, Rizal to Quiapo, Manila via Cainta Junction, Ortigas Avenue, University Belt (in Recto).
  • Green Star Express Inc.
  • GV Florida Transport - once a small minibus operator, but, when it took over the bankrupt B. Transit in Batac, began to ply routes in Northern Luzon to Manila
  • JAC Liner Inc.
  • Jam Liner Inc. (operated by Philtranco)
  • Jasper Jean Liner Inc.
  • Jayross Lucky Seven Bus Company
  • Jell Transport Inc.
  • Joanna Jesh Transport Corp.
  • J.S. Vergara Lines (now taken over by San Agustin)
  • Juaymah Maureen Transport - this company was founded by Oscar Mababangloob. It plies routes from Alabang to Quiapo and Lawton.
  • Kapalaran Bus -Lawton via Laguna.
  • Kellen Transport (sister company of Jell Transport)
  • Lorna Express
  • Lucena Lines
  • Maria de Leon - operating out of Ilocos Norte, it is dubbed "The Fastest Woman on the Road"
  • Metro Manila Transit Corp. - the first bus company owned by the Philippine government under the Marcos regime, established in 1981 during the Iran-Iraq War but the operation was crippled by the EDSA People Power Revolution in 1986, and later became bankrupt in 1995. On the defunct MMTC shattered into four bus companies - United Workers Transport Corp., DCOMMP Transport Service Cooperative, Filcomtrans (went bankrupt in 1999), and Fastrans (went bankrupt in 2007).
  • MGP Trans - a sister company of PVP Liner. It also owns ordinary units.
  • Nicholas Albert Transport Inc.
  • Newman Goldliner Inc. (SM Fairview via Baclaran and MIA)
  • Nova Auto Transport Inc.
  • N. Dela Rosa Liner
  • PAMANA Transport Service Inc.
  • PP Bus Lines
  • Partas
  • Pascual Liner
  • Philippine Rabbit - once called "The King of the Road", but, after 50 or so years its routes and stops was reduced by a crippling strike
  • Philtranco
  • Philippians Bus (owner of Newman Goldliner)
  • PVP Liner - the bus company started its operations in 1984 by late Panfilo V. Pajarillo, which the bus company was named after him. It was dubbed as the "Morning Star" before it was changed into "Rising Star" with its air-conditioned units in 1995, with the following routes: FTI-Navotas Terminal via EDSA (went bankrupt and was sold to CHER Transport in 2006) and Asturias -Ayala via Taft Avenue.
  • RCJ Lines - an offshoot of the successful RCJ Trucking corporation
  • RCJ Trans - a sister company of RCJ Lines
  • RRCG Transport
  • Santrans
  • San Agustin Shuttle Service Corp.(sister company of Tas Trans and Erjohn & Almark)
  • Saulog Transit Inc.
  • St. Joseph/Inocencio Aniceto - one of the most dominant bus companies in the 70s and 80s until it went bankrupt; however, it is recovering and is now maintaining its old route.
  • Sta.Lucia Express(under management of Victory Liner)
  • Tritan Inc.
  • Tas Trans Corp. (sister company of San Agustin and Erjohn & Almark)
  • Victory Liner
  • Vil 5000 Inc. (formerly known as Vilfran Liner)
  • Viron Transit - owned by millionaire Santiago Rondaris' son; formerly operating as far as the second district of Ilocos Sur but has started to operate as far as Laoag City
  • Yellow Bus lines Incorporated (Oldest bus line in Mindanao) and the second largest in Mindanao with 200 units its base terminal are in Koronadal City and General Santos City. It operation years are 50 years already in 2009

[edit] Water transportation

Merchant marine

  • Total: 480 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 5,973,024 GRT/9,025,087 metric tons deadweight (DWT)

Ships by type

  • Bulk 159, cargo 122, chemical tanker 5, combination bulk 9, container 7, liquified gas 13, livestock carrier 9, passenger 4, passenger/cargo 12, petroleum tanker 47, refrigerated cargo 20, roll-on/roll-off 19, short-sea passenger 32, specialized tanker 2, vehicle carrier 20 (1999 est.)

Note: a flag of convenience registry: Japan owns 19 ships, Hong Kong 5, Cyprus 1, Denmark 1, Greece 1, Netherlands 1, Singapore 1, and UK 1 (1998 est.)

Waterways

  • 3,219 km; limited to shallow-draft (less than 1.5 m) vessels.

[edit] Ports and harbors

The Batangas Port Terminal

The main gateway to the Philippines through the sea is through the Manila International Cargo Terminal and the Eva Macapagal Port Terminal, both in the pier area of Manila. Other cities with bustling ports and piers include Bacolod, Batangas City, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Butuan, Iligan, Iloilo, Jolo, Legazpi, Lucena, Puerto Princesa, San Fernando, Subic, Zamboanga, Cotabato, Allen, Ormoc, Ozamiz and Tagbilaran. Most of these terminals comprise the Strong Republic Nautical Highway, a nautical system conceptualized under the term of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo where land vehicles can use the roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) ship service to traverse the different islands of the country at minimal costs.

[edit] River ferries

[edit] Shipping companies

[edit] Air transportation

Airports

Quantity: 266 (1999 est.)

  • with paved runways: 76
    • over 3,047 m: 4
    • 2,438 to 3,047 m: 5
    • 1,524 to 2,437 m: 26
    • 914 to 1,523 m: 31
    • under 914 m: 10 (1999 est.)
  • with unpaved runways: 190
    • 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
    • 914 to 1,523 m: 66
    • under 914 m: 121 (1999 est.)

[edit] International gateways

Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3.

See main article - List of airports in the Philippines

Heliports

  • Quantity: 1 (1999 est.)

[edit] Local airlines

[edit] History

[edit] 1940s

[edit] Vehicles

During this period, there were 50,000 automobiles in the region. The carabao was used as a primary transportation source. The country's first public mass-vehicular transportation service was De Dios Transit Bus Corp., providing public mass transportation in major roads of Manila after the Second World War

[edit] Railways

Main articles: Rail transport in the Philippines and Philippine National Railways

There were 1,400 km of narrow-gauge track, owned by either the Manila Railway Company (based in Luzon) or the Philippine Railway Company (an American company based in Panay and Cebu). 1,130 km of these tracks were on Luzon, with about 50% of this amount located in the central plain. In addition, there were some 400 km of privately owned track in the central plain of Luzon. All of this, with the exception of a stretch above Manila, was single-track.

[edit] Roads

There were 22,960 km of highway in the Philippine archipelago. More than half of these roads were in central and southern Luzon and three major highways of this island were, and probably still are, Routes 1, 3, and 5. These routes were two-lane roads with concrete or asphalt surfacing. Each of these 3 roads enters the capital, Manila, and their access roads linked the various parts of the island.

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