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.

He disclosed that the management of the Ceres Bus Liner had already informed him that it would field 20 bus liners if ever the port would be in operation already.  However, at the moment, such plan was stalled yet due to lack of boats to ferry the buses.

Yebes stressed that with Katipunan Roro port, it would only take two hours from Mabinay, Negros Oriental to Katipunan which is presently taking four hours from Dapitan to Dumaguete. “The opening of a new route to Dumaguete and to the rest of Visayas and Luzon will be giving our provincial economy a greater vitality,” the governor was optimistic. (Press Freedom, Vol. XX No. 11)