Roble Shipping

Roble Shipping
Type	Private
Industry	Shipping
Founded	February 20, 1985
Founder	Jose L. Roble
Headquarters	North Reclamation Area, Cebu City, Philippines
Total assets	₱100 Million
Website	http://www.robleshipping.com/

Roble Shipping Inc. is a Cebu-based shipping line located in Cebu City, Philippines. The company was founded by Jose Roble, a native of Danao City, Cebu. Established on February 20, 1985, it started with a small cargo vessel called MV Marao plying from Cebu to Iloilo containing rice and mixed cargo materials. Roble Shipping Inc. is now one of the major players in the Leyte and Samar routes. The shipping line has seven passenger vessels of which five are roll-on/roll-off vessels, ten cargo vessels and four barges and tugboats.^[1]

The founder and owner of Roble Shipping Inc., Jose L. Roble, died on September 11, 2009 at the Cebu Doctors' University Hospital at the age of 62. All of his sons and daughters now play important roles in steering the company.

The Duranos also helped in the early years in establishing the company.

In 2010, Roble Shipping Inc. will move all its operations to their new headquarters in Pier 7.

Passenger fleet

Current

Roble Shipping's fleet consists of 7 Roll-On Roll-Off vessels

MV Wonderful Stars (Flagship)
MV Theresian Stars (ex-Cagayan Princess)
MV Joyful Stars (ex-Cebu Princess)
MV Beautiful Stars
MV Blessed Stars'
MV Sacred Stars (ex-Filipinas Surigao)
MV Graceful Stars
MV Oroquitta Stars

Former

MV Heaven Star
MV Ormoc Star

Ports of call

Roble Shipping Inc. main port of call is Cebu City. Other ports of call are Catbalogan City,

Nasipit and Ormoc City and the towns of Hilongos, Baybay, and Naval.

Routes

Cebu-Ormoc: MV Wonderful Stars
Cebu-Hilongos: MV Theresian Stars / MV Joyful Stars
Cebu-Catbalogan: MV Blessed Stars / MV Beautiful Stars
Cebu-Naval, Biliran: MV Blessed Stars / MV Beautiful Stars

Incidents

M/V Hilongos Diamond sunk within the Bato, Leyte Port
January 3, 2008 - The MV Heaven Star of the Roble Shipping Lines left Ormoc City about 11 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Cebu City port at 3 p.m. The vessel stopped off Isabel town in Leyte at noon. The vessel suffered a mechanical problem after seawater got into its bunker fuel. The company's other vessel M/V Wonderful Stars followed up to M/V Heaven Star's location to tow her.^[2]
MV Wonderful Star collided with a foreign-owned cargo vessel MCC Sulo at 1:20 a.m. Saturday around 4.5 nautical miles (8.3 km) from Liloan town, some 19 kilometers north of Cebu City. The MV Wonderful Star's port side (left side) catwalk railings were slightly damaged while MCC Sulo's starboard (right) bow had a slight scratch.^[3]
Last December 2, 2009 - M/V Wonderful Stars had a collision with a passenger cargo vessel M/V Subic Bay 1 of Carlos Gothong Lines. The said vessel had gone sideways and sustained damages estimated to be within P600,000 to P700,000.^[4]

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