Port of Manila
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The Port of Manila, Manila, Philippines, is located in the vicinity of Manila Bay, one of the finest natural harbors in the world. The Port of Manila is the premier International shipping gateway to the Philippines.
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[edit] About
"Manila Port" (also known as the "Port of Manila" or "Manila International Cargo Terminal") is one of Asia's and South East Asia's major seaports, and also one of the Philippine's most active ports together with Subic Bay, Cebu, and other major Philippine ports.
In a 2005 study, The Port of Manila was listed as the world's 31st most active container port, moving 2,665 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) worth of containers that year.[1]
The bay entrance is 19 km wide and expands to a width of 48 km. Mariveles, in the province of Bataan, is an anchorage just inside the northern entrance and Sangley Point is the former location of Cavite Naval Base.
On either side of the bay are volcanic peaks topped with tropical foliage: 40 km to the north is the Bataan Peninsula and to the south is the province of Cavite.
Manila has in all around 3 main areas, which are known as Manila North (MNN), Manila South (MNS) and Manila (MNL).[2]
[edit] History
- See also: History of the Philippines
The Port of Manila and the area dates back to Spanish and pre-Spanish rule of the Philippine Islands.
It is recorded that Manila and the Philippines had trade relations with most neighbouring countries of the Philippines, Major trading partners included China, Japan and ties with India through neighboring present-day Malaysia and Indonesia, this has has been recorded as early as the 9th to the 12th century. [3] The port frequently traded with Arabian countries and merchants during the Spanish Period of rule. The Spanish controlled Philippines soon attracted foreign merchants and traders, particularly from Spain, China and Mexico.
Manila Port was also the staging point for the Manila galleons, which served the route with Philippine-made ships under Spanish rule.
The bay was also the setting for the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898 and the siege of Corregidor Island by invading Japanese forces in 1942.
[edit] Data
Total area: 606,740 sq.
