Siquijor Port register the higher number of Passengers
for the 1st Semester of 2021

In the 1st Semester of 2021, a total of 12,681 passengers were registered to have departed in the ports of Siquijor. The Figure 1 exhibits that only two ports in the Province of Siquijor were in active operation. The Mun. of Siquijor port showed the higher contributor at 51% or 6,476 number of passengers while Port of Mun. of Larena with 6,205 or 49% of the total number of passengers.
Coastal manifests for the 1st Semester of 2021

For the 1st semester of 2021 the Province of Siquijor, has a total of 1,397 coastal manifest collected from the two Ports of Siquijor Province, a drop of 72.33 percent compared to the year 2020 1st semester with 5,094 coastal manifests.

The collected and processed coastwise for the 1st semester of the year 2021 declined by 34.71 percent from 660 compared to 1,011 manifests of the same semester of 2020. Likewise, a decrease of 81.94 percent was recorded from a total of 737 collected and processed passenger manifest of the 1st semester of 2021 compared to 4,083 same semester last year 2020.

Number of Passengers drops by 91.70 percent for the 1st Semester 2021

The Province of Siquijor transported a total of 12,681 passengers via water for the 1st semester of 2021, decrease of 128,946 passengers or 91 percent compared to the same semester of 2020 with 141,627 total number of recorded passengers. (Figure 3)

The month of January in the 1st semester of 2021 registered the 2nd lowest number of passengers with 1181 or a 98.2 decrease of percent from the same month of 2020 with 65,472 passengers. Likewise, February 2021 declined by 97.5 percent with 1,230 to 49,744 passengers recorded in 2020 of the same months. On the other hand, March 2021 slides at 89.16 percent or 2,635 passengers compared to March 2020 with 24,302 number of passengers, April got the lowest number of passengers in the rest of the 2021, 1st semester with only 1,157 but higher than compared to the equivalent month of the year 2020 with only 396 at the increased of 192.2 percent, Month of May recorded the highest number of the passenger for the 1st semester of 2021 with the total of 3,261 compared to 743 in the same month of the year 2020  going up with the of 338.9 percent, while in the last month of the 1st semester, June, the registered passenger increased to 128.5 percent from 970 to 2217compared to June 2020.The decrease in the number of passengers for the 1st semester represent a big impact in the 91.70 percent drop-off for the year 2021. (Table 1)

Quantity and Value of Transported Commodities slid by 37 to 38 percent

In the 1st semester of 2021, the province of Siquijor posted a decrease 36.94%, for various commodities traded through coastwise or a total of 19,486.385 metric tons compared to the last year’s 1st semester with 30,904.546 metric tons. (Figure 4)

The value of transported commodities also dropped by 37.96 percent from 6,921,179 in thousand pesos in the 1st semester of 2020 compared to 4,293,853 in thousand pesos recorded in the 1st semester level of 2021. (Figure 5)

The coastwise commodity data was based on the collected documents from the two (2) Ports with cargoes transactions. The implementation of General Community Quarantine with heightened restriction in the Province of Siquijor due to the COVID-19, decreases the transported (outbound) quantity of commodities in the province.

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Commodity flow or domestic trade statistics is a compilation of data on commodities carried through air, rail and water transport system of the country.

There are three divisions of domestic trade statistics, identified as: Air Statistics, Rail Trade Statistics and Coastwise Trade and Passenger Statistics.

The Philippine Statistics Authority, Siquijor Provincial Office collected the Coastal Trade and Passenger Statistics because it is only the division of the domestic trade statistics that is available in the Island Province of Siquijor.

Passenger trade and coastwise statistics refers to the flow of passenger and commodities these were transported from one port to another with in the country through the water transport system.

The basic principle of this special release was the collected and processed data came from the two active ports of Siquijor Province namely Siquijor and Larena seaport. The deadline of submission of data files to the Central Office on or before the 30th day of the reference month.  

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Domestic commodity flow refers to the flow of goods and/or commodities through air, water and rail transport system in the country.

Outflow refers to the total value of goods and/or commodities coming out into a specified   region/province.

Inflow refers to the value of goods and/or commodities coming into a specified region/province.

Port/Station of Origin refers to the port or station where the cargoes originally came from.

Port/Station of Destination refers to the port or station where the cargoes are destined for.

Freight refers to charges on cargoes paid for the transportation of goods and/or commodities for one port or station to another.

Value refers to the peso equivalent of a particular commodity.

Quantity or Weight refers to the total amount or volume of a particular commodity.

LIMITATION OF DOMESTIC TRADE STATISTICS

Domestic trade statistics contained in this report pertains to the flow of goods through seaports and airports in the country, whether for government or private use or for commercial purposes. Domestic trade through land is excluded because of the absence of an approach to capture data in the archipelagic island of the country. Since, 2007 rail transport statistics are excluded due to the rehabilitation and upgrading of the Philippine National Railway (PNR). Airway bills, on the other hand are collected only from domestic airlines which accounted for transaction that pass through all domestic airports in the country.

Commodities and/or goods that are excluded in the compilation of data are the following:

a. Fish and other marine products landed directly from the sea;    

b. Fishing ports;

c. Goods transported by vessels of the Philippine Navy;

d. Logistics goods intended for the vessel and the crew;

e. Cadaver; and

f.  Vessels not carrying any cargo/passenger, wherein the vessel master indicates “NIL CARGO/PASSENGER” in the coasting manifest or passenger documents.

(SGD.) Aurelia M. Canda
Chief Statistical Specialist