If realized, the roll-on-roll off port at Tambo, Katipunan, ZN could bridge Zamboanga del Norte, to any part of Luzon and the Visayas. Gov. Rolando Yebes recently prided another breakthrough in his administration as the Department of Transportation and Communications has recently appropriated a budget for its construction.

Although the department has not yet disclosed the initial amount it could release, Gov. Yebes was confident that the port could ease up the problems met at Pulauan Port, Dapitan under PGMA’s Strong Republic Nautical Highway Project. Looking at the growing traffic at Pulauan with nine ro-ro trips for Dumaguete every day, the provincial governor felt that the Ro-ro port at Katipunan is an urgent need of the province.

Read more