NEW ROUTE. From still left, Medellin Mayor Joven Mondigo, Cebu Provincial Board Member Kerrie Shimura, 4th District Rep. Janice Salimbangon, SB Member Romeo Tapayan, Aznar Transport common manager Kyle Alexander Aznar and SB Member Joselito Yurag all through the launching of the Medellin, Cebu and Sta. Fe, Bantayan route on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (Aznar Transport)
Making use of a passenger-only vessel, Aznar Drinking water Taxi with a passenger potential of 92, brings forth additional tourism and company routines to these flourishing towns.
With day by day schedules, the drinking water taxi departs Medellin as early as 7 a.m. and Sta. Fe at 8 a.m although the last excursion to Sta. Fe is at 3 p.m and to Medellin at 4 p.m.
The delivery organization also mounted a passenger and cargo vessel for the same route. Holidaymakers who want to provide in their autos for a road journey to the neighboring island might do so as LCT Melrivic 1 can accommodate 120 travellers and has a cargo potential of either 30 units of four-wheelers or 7 units of 10-wheelers and two models of 6-wheelers.
The vessel departs Medellin twice day by day at 6:30 a.m and 10:30 am though it leaves Bantayan at 8:30 am and 4:30 pm.
This linkage is believed to help the logistics and source chain of both of those towns with Medellin becoming acknowledged as one of the important producers of sugar and yellow corn and Bantayan Island being the egg basket of the province.
“Mounting this new route is in line with our corporation mission to discover and provide untapped and underserved markets. We also preferred to aid the initiative of the Municipality of Medellin to diversify its overall economy rather predominantly relying on the sugar marketplace for its supply of profits,” reported Kyle Alexander Aznar, normal supervisor.
This new route will provide as an choice to the Hagnaya, San Remigio – Sta Fe, Bantayan route.
The Aznar H2o Taxi has been equipped with brand new twin baudouin engines although LCT Melrivic 1 has been equipped with manufacturer new twin Mitsubishi engines. These new engines will lessen journey time to 35 mins and just one hour, respectively.
The port of Medellin can be handy to travelers as it has a big parking location the place vacationers can go away their vehicles. There will also be Ceres bus excursions from Cebu North Bus Terminal to Kawit, Medellin and vice versa.
Aznar Transport currently has a fleet of 10 vessels and serves the subsequent routes— Tabuelan – Escalante, Negros Medellin – Sta Fe., Bantayan Danao – Camotes Danao – Isabel, Leyte and Bogo – Palompon , Leyte.
Irrespective of the financial headwinds brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic and other external aspects this sort of as the hike in gas selling prices thanks to the Ukriane-Russia stress, the shipping firm stays optimistic of what lies ahead adhering to the reopening of the economic climate soon after two a long time of varying phases of lockdowns.
“We believe that the outcomes of occasions these types of as the pandemic and the massive oil value hike owing to the war in Ukraine and Russia are simply short-term and it is just a make a difference of weathering the storm,” said Aznar.
“In the 25 many years of Aznar Shipping and delivery, we have time and time again weathered different crises. We are self-assured that these crises will move and the situation will once again normalize,” he additional. (KOC)