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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Saturday, December 8, 2012 |
| Negros Oriental | |
 Dumaguete Port damage at P100 million, PPA says ‘Pablo’ ruins 6 sea vessels DTI: No hoarding of goods in NegOr |
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Dumaguete Port damage
at P100 million, PPA says
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE
Typhoon “Pablo” may have spared Negros Oriental in terms of lives lost with only two casualties and leaving minimal damage to property, but cost millions of pesos on government infrastructure.
The Philippine Ports Authority reported an initial damage of around P100 million, and a team of technical personnel and engineers are arriving from Manila to determine its extent.
Acting Dumaguete port manager, Annie Lee Manese, stayed at her quarters at the port but evacuated to the administration building until she was rescued by a fire truck.
| ‘Pablo’ ruins 6 sea vessels The Coast Guard station in Dumaguete City said yesterday that a power barge in Siquijor province and two commercial barges in Amlan, Negros Oriental, were damaged by typhoon “Pablo”. This brought to six the number of sea vessels in Negros Oriental and Siquijor that were destroyed by the typhoon, latest Coast Guard reports said. It said the LCT Tampi Twin and the LCT Georgia, both landing craft tank barges of the Maayo Shipping Inc., were dislodged from their mooring wharves in Tandayag, Tampi in Amlan at the height of the storm Tuesday.. |
| DTI: No hoarding of Paste article here. |
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