Larena Port registers the higher number of Passengers for the 1st Quarter of 2021

In the 1st Quarter of 2021, a total of 5,046 passengers were registered to have departed in the ports of Siquijor. Figure 1 exhibits that there were only two ports in the Province of Siquijor were in active operation. The Larena port showed the higher contribution of 51% or 2,532 number of passengers and Port of Siquijor with 2,514 or 49% of the total number of passengers.

Collected and Processed coastal manifest for the 1st Quarter of 2021

For the 1st quarter of 2021 the Island Province of Siquijor, has a total of 649 coastal manifest collected from the two Ports of Siquijor Province, a drop of 85.73% compared to the year 2020 1st Quarter with 4,547   coastal manifests.

The collected and processed coastwise manifest for the 1st quarter of the year 2021 declined by 81.5% from 314 compared to 718 manifests of the same quarter of 2020. Likewise, a decrease of 91.25% was recorded from a total of 335 collected and processed passenger manifest of the 1st quarter of 2021 compared to 3,829 1st quarter from the past year 2020.

Number of Passengers drops by 96.38 percent for the 1st Quarter 2021

The Island Province of Siquijor transported a total of 5,046 passengers via water for the 1st quarter of 2021, sudden decrease of 134,472 passengers or 96.38 percent compared to the same quarter of 2020 with 139,518 total number of recorded passengers. (Figure 3)

The month of January in the 1st quarter of 2021 registered the lowest number of passengers  with 1,181 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. The decrease in the number of passengers for the 1st quarter represent a big impact in the 96.38 percent drop-off for the year 2021. (Table 1)

Quantity and Value of Tranported Commodities slides by 52 to 66 percent

In the 1st quarter of 2021, the province of Siquijor posted a sudden decrease 51.73%, for various commodities traded through coastwise or a total of 9,423.064 metric tons compared to the last year’s 1st quarter with 19,519.838 metric tons. (Figure 4)

The value of transported commodities also droped by 66.46 percent from 4,763,235 in thousand pesos in the 1st quarter of 2020 compared to 1,597,530 in thousand pesos recorded in the 1st quarter 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 Enhance Community Quarantine in the Island Province 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 cause its 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