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Roble Shipping, Inc.
Roble Shipping, Inc. runs 4 crossings listed here, 34 sailings a week, busiest at Cebu, Ormoc and Hilongos. The most frequent is Cebu to Hilongos.
- 4
- routes
- 34
- sailings a week
- Cebu City, Cebu
- based in
Roble Shipping, Inc. — Yakitaki26 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
What to know
- Roble was incorporated in February 1985 and started operating with M/V Marao.
- Accommodation ranges from open-air economy and sitting seats to cabins that take eight and executive and VIP rooms for two.
- Minors, students, senior citizens and PWDs pay reduced fares, and the Hilongos route has a seafarer rate too.
- A minor travelling without a parent must carry a notarised consent letter and copies of the relevant IDs.
- Booking offices are in Ormoc, Hilongos and Baybay, besides Cebu's Pier 3.
Checked on against robleshipping.com.
About Roble Shipping, Inc.
Roble Shipping's fare list reads more like a hotel tariff than a ferry ticket: open-air economy and sitting accommodation at the bottom, air-conditioned tourist class in the middle, and cabins, executive rooms and VIP rooms at the top. Its published tables date from 2025 and earlier, and a fuel surcharge of unstated size has applied since March 2026, so confirm the price with Roble before you travel.
Hilongos, on the west coast of Leyte, is its main destination here. Cebu to Hilongos runs every day at 21:00, with a second sailing at 11:00 from Friday to Sunday, 10 a week in all. The return has the same count, 22:00 daily and 11:00 on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The line also sails from Cebu to Ormoc once a day at 22:00, coming back at 11:00, and its booking offices reach further along the Leyte coast. Roble publishes no arrival times, so no crossing times appear for it.
These are RoRo ships, so the car deck matters as much as the cabins: Roble takes vehicles from motorcycles up to backhoes and bulldozers, and it also offers its ships and crews for charter voyages anywhere in the country.
4 crossings
Routes they sail
Ordered by how often each crossing runs.
Before you sail
Sailing with a Philippine ferry line
Boarding, baggage and vehicle rules apply across the network, not just to one operator.
