ILOILO CITY All 223 passengers and 37 crew of M/V Filipinas Cebu are safe after it ran aground off an island in Concepcion, Iloilo, past midnight Tuesday, August 9.
THE passenger and cargo ship M/V Filipinas Cebu that ran aground off an island in Concepcion, Iloilo. (Courtesy of Jhon Rey Ast
STRANDED. M/V Filipinas Cebu owned by the Cokaliong Shipping Lines runs aground off the waters of Concepcion, Iloilo around 11 p.m. of Aug. 8, 2022. All 279 passengers were rescued and transferred to MV Filipinas Nasipit and BRP Panglao as of 4:40 p.m. of Tuesday (Aug. 9, 2022), according to Concepcion Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer Jhon Rey Asturias in a phone interview.(PNA photo courtesy of Jhon Rey Asturias) ILOILO CITY - All 279 passengers on board the M/V Filipinas Cebu owned by the Cokaliong Shipping Lines that ran aground off waters of Sitio Miape, Barangay Igbon in Concepcion, Iloilo have been rescued as of 4:40 p.m. Tuesday. Concepcion Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (MDRRM) Officer Jhon Rey Asturias in a phone interview on Tuesday said that 270 passengers were transferred to M/V Filipinas Nasipit bound for Cebu while nine passengers were ferried by the BRP Panglao (FPB-2402) of the Philippine Coast Guard going to Iloilo City. M/V Fi