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Regional Container Lines expands Philippine service with additional call to Zamboanga
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The development gives Zamboanga its first ever international carrier, providing the region direct access to international trade
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The RSP6 service’s maiden voyage is on November 11, 2022 with the arrival of RCL Vessel Danu Bhum
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Service rotation is Cebu-Cagayan-Zamboanga-Singapore
Regional Container Lines (RCL) is expanding further its market coverage in the Philippines by adding a new service from Zamboanga to Singapore. The development gives Zamboanga its first ever international carrier, providing the region direct access to international trade.
The expanded RSP6 service’s maiden voyage is set on November 11, 2022, with the arrival of RCL vessel Danu Bhum rotating Cebu-Cagayan-Zamboanga-Singapore.
RCL in a statement said the new service will open up opportunities for Zamboanga, considered the Philippines’ gateway to the Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area.
The Zamboanga Export and Import Confederation and the Canned Sardines Association of the Philippines lauded the additional RCL service, calling it a breakthrough following their years of clamor to have an international carrier call Zamboanga, and place the region on the international shipping map.
RCL said the service is also supported by the Department of Trade and Industry, Philippine Ports Authority, Bureau of Customs and other major stakeholders in Zamboanga.
Thailand-based RCL began as a common feeder carrier operating first feeder container vessel in 1979 between Bangkok and Singapore. RCL currently owns and operates 49 container vessels covering 69 destinations in Asia, India, the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East.
The Philippine business opened in 1988 at the Port of Manila. In the early 90s, RCL was the first common feeder vessel to serve the ports of Cebu and Davao.
RCL Philippines is headed by its owner’s representative Jesus Sedano. It is represented in Southern Philippines (Cebu, Davao, General Santos, Cagayan De Oro and now Zamboanga) by exclusive agent Eagle Express under its president and CEO Mark Angelo Colona and general manager Marlon Isah de Guzman.
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