The Dipolog City Port, originally and formerly known as the Galas Feeder Port ( fil, Daungan ng Galas, ceb, Pantalan sa Galas), is a seaport in

Dipolog City Dipolog, officially the City of Dipolog ( ceb, Dakbayan sa Dipolog; Subanen: ''Gembagel G'benwa Dipuleg/Bagbenwa Dipuleg''; Chavacano: ''Ciudad de Dipolog''; fil, Lungsod ng Dipolog), is a 3rd class component city and capital of the province o ...

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. It is owned and managed by the City Government of Dipolog.

History

The Port of Dipolog started as a landing area for smaller fishing boats or ''bancas''. Later, the city government under the administration of

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Roseller Barinaga Roseller "Matoy" Barinaga (born August 4, 1936) is a Filipino lawyer and politician from the province of Zamboanga del Norte. He previously served as Vice Mayor of Dipolog (1970–1978), Mayor of Dipolog (1978–1986; 1988–1998), member of the ...

planned to erect docking platforms, and transform it into a feeder port to accommodate smaller sea vessels that cannot dock at nearby Port of Dapitan which is barely 12 kilometers away. In 2007, the city government signified its plan to upgrade the feeder port into a passenger port and had made a memorandum of agreement between the city government and

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for the port's operation. From that time, there was no shipping company serving the port until in the year 2015. However, in 2018, allegations on the port's operation floated as then-First District Representative

Bullet Jalosjos Seth Frederick "Bullet" Pal Jalosjos is a Philippines, Filipino politician from the province of Zamboanga del Norte. Family and personal life He is the son of former Legislative districts of Zamboanga del Norte#1st District, First District Cong ...

called for the port's immediate closure for it lacked port security forces like the

Philippine Coast Guard The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) ( fil, Tanod Baybayin ng Pilipinas) is recognized as the third armed uniformed service of the country attached to the Philippines' Department of Transportation, tasked primarily with enforcing laws within P ...

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, and the

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. On January 23, 2019, after four years of operating, the new Passenger Terminal was open to the public. In the same year, the

Maritime Industry Authority The Maritime Industry Authority ( fil, Pangasiwaan sa Industriyang Maritima), known by the acronym MARINA (), is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Transportation responsible for integrating the development, promoti ...

opened a missionary route between Dipolog and Siaton, Negros Oriental, a municipality south of

Dumaguete Dumaguete, officially the City of Dumaguete ( ceb, Dakbayan sa Dumaguete; fil, Lungsod ng Dumaguete), is a 3rd income class component city and the capital of the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a p ...

. On August 27 of 2020, the City Government, with the help of the Philippine Coast Guard, formally opened the Coast Guard Sub-Station situated within the grounds of the port.

Shipping firms and destinations

* Medallion Transport -

Cebu City Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu ( ceb, Dakbayan sa Sugbo; fil, Lungsod ng Cebu; hil, Dakbanwa sang Sugbo), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines and capital of the Cebu Province. Acc ...

and

* Lite Ferries -

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Statistics

Incidents

* On the morning of May 31, 2019, onboard ''MV Lady of Joy'' of Medallion Transport, a mother jumped off that vessel with her seven-month-old infant as the ship was approaching Galas Port. Both the mother and the infant were rescued and brought to the nearest hospital for medical treatment.

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History

Shipping firms and destinations

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