Starhorse Shipping Lines

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Starhorse Shipping Lines
Company type Private Company
IndustryShipping
Founded2008;16 years ago (2008) in Lucena, Quezon Province
FounderVictor Reyes
Headquarters
No. 20, San Antonio Street, Lourdes Subdivision, Brgy. Isabang, Lucena, Quezon
,
Philippines
Area served
 Marinduque, Masbate, Quezon Province and, Romblon in the Philippines
Key people
Merian Reyes
Dominic Reyes
Website starhorse.com.ph

Starhorse Shipping Lines, Inc. is a domestic shipping company based in Lucena City, Quezon, Philippines. It was established in 2008 by entrepreneur and politician Victor Reyes, who was a former board member in Quezon Province. It mainly serves the provinces of Marinduque, Masbate, Quezon, and Romblon and is one of the leading domestic shipping companies operating in the Calabarzon, Bicol, Visayas, and Mimaropa regions.

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History

Starhorse Shipping Lines, Inc. (SSLI) was established in 2008 by entrepreneur and Quezon Province provincial board member Victor A. Reyes, who was previously the President of the defunct domestic shipping company Viva Shipping Lines, Inc. in the 1990s. SSLI is now being managed by Victor Reyes' wife, Merian Hernandez-Reyes, following Reyes' death in 2016. [1]

The company acquired two RORO ferries leased from the state-owned DBP Leasing Corporation and operated them initially in the Lucena City-Marinduque route. In the succeeding years, the Maritime Industry Authority eventually allowed the company to operate in other routes aside from the Lucena-Marinduque [2] [3] and Lucena-Marinduque-Romblon route. [4] In 2018, the company commissioned the construction of two new vessels in Mokpo, South Korea, allowing it to operate additional routes such as the San Andres, Quezon-Pasacao, Camarines Sur-San Pascual, Masbate route. [1] [5]

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, the company was one of several ferry companies that assisted the Philippine government in helping locally stranded individuals return to their provinces. [6]

Routes

As of April 2023, Starhorse Shipping Lines operates on the following routes:

FromTo
Lucena, Quezon Province
Mogpog, Marinduque
Gasan, Marinduque
Banton, Romblon
Corcuera, Romblon
San Agustin, Romblon
Romblon, Romblon
Magdiwang, Romblon
Masbate City, Masbate
San Pascual, Masbate
Pasacao, Camarines Sur
San Andres, Quezon
Batangas City, Batangas
Calapan, Oriental Mindoro
Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro
Real, Quezon
Polillo, Quezon

Vessels

Starhorse Shipping Lines operates fifteen RORO vessels (Including the vessels from their sister company, Viva Peñafrancia Lines) as of October 2024. Some of these vessels were leased from DBP Leasing Corporation, while three were built by Moon-chang Shipbuilding Dockyard in Mokpo, South Korea: [7]

Virgen de Peñafrancia Series

Viva Series

Former Vessels

These are the former vessels of Starhorse Shipping Lines:

There was another MVVDPVII that Starhorse Shipping Lines previously operated, and operated on the Lucena-Marinduque Route, which is now currently operated by Montenegro Lines, and now named MV Reina De Luna ( IMO number :  40001836)

Before the South Korean Version of MVVDPVIII, This ship was aqcuired by SSLI, and operated on the Lucena-Marinduque Route. Now operated by Jeanalyn Shipping and named to MV Pinoy Roro 1.

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