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First Pinoy-made RoRo ship launched

Michael Joe Delizo, ABS-CBN News

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">HAPPENING NOW: Shogun Ships Co. Inc. launches the first Philippine made ship MV Isla Simara at North Harbor in Manila. This is the first vessel built in the Philippines by Filipino shipbuilders. <a href="https://t.co/WPrCOAE0ij">pic.twitter.com/WPrCOAE0ij</a>— Michael Joe Delizo (@michael_delizo) <a href="https://twitter.com/michael_delizo/status/1162569502350905344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2019</a></blockquote><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script>MANILA — The first Filipino-made roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) vessel was launched Saturday at North Harbor in the capital, providing a potential boost to the local ship-building industry. The 468-seater M/V Isla Simara passenger ship with a 12-meter long vehicle ramp is the brainchild of Shogun Ships Corp. Inc. and Josefa Slipways Inc.It is the first RoRo ship in the Philippines with a modern Automation and Control System that can be monitored real-time in the company’s head office. M/V Isla Simara is also the first local RoRo ship with a Marine Evacuation System, a lifesaving device that is similar to an airplane’s evacuation chute through which passengers can slide directly to a lifeboat without getting wet. The ship is expected to sail on its maiden commercial trip next week from Matnog to Allen towns in Northern Samar.“This will boost the local ship-building industry in the Philippines,” said Thadedeus Jovelanos, president of Philippine Register of Shipping. “It shows that we can build better, better, and better because we continuously learn,” he added. M/V Isla Simara is part of the Shogun Ships&#x27; initiative to improve the quality of locally built ships, said the company&#x27;s president Vicente Cordero. “We hope that with this project, [we] can inspire other ship owners and ship builders to do this kind of ship in the future,” he said.

The first Filipino-made roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) vessel was launched Saturday at North Harbor in the capital, providing a potential boost to the local ship-building industry.

The first Filipino-made roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) vessel was launched Saturday at North Harbor in the capital, providing a potential boost to the local ship-building industry.

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First Pinoy-made RoRo ship launched

Michael Joe Delizo,

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Published Aug 18, 2019 09:50 AM PHT

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