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Starhorse Shipping Lines
Starhorse Shipping Lines runs 15 crossings listed here, 176 sailings a week, busiest at Lucena, San Pascual (Burias) and Balanacan. The most frequent is Lucena to Balanacan.
- 15
- routes
- 176
- sailings a week
- Lucena City, Quezon
- based in
Starhorse Shipping Lines — Port of Calapan — Hariboneagle927 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
What to know
- Starhorse was registered with the Department of Trade and Industry in October 2007.
- The company traces its origins to Viva Shipping Lines, founded by Don Domingo Reyes.
- It describes itself as a MARINA-accredited shipping operator.
- Every port it serves, from Dalahican in Lucena to Masbate, has a separate phone contact listed.
Checked on against starhorse.com.ph.
About Starhorse Shipping Lines
Lucena City is the hub of Starhorse's timetable here. Six departures a day leave it for Balanacan on Marinduque, with five coming back, and at 16:00 a boat sails for the Romblon islands: daily to Romblon and San Agustin, and three days a week each to Banton and Simara, where the boat back leaves the following day. Two crossings a day each way also link San Pascual on Burias with Pasacao in Camarines Sur and with San Andres in Quezon. Lucena to Masbate, a 17-hour passage, is suspended: on 11 September 2026 the company posted that the sailings were cancelled for vessel maintenance, with no date to resume, although tickets were still on sale online, so check its Facebook page before planning around that route.
The company's own route list is longer still. It also names Sibuyan in the Romblon group, Real to Polillo in Quezon, and the Batangas crossings to Calapan and Abra de Ilog. None of those appear in our data yet, so use the operator's own pages for them.
Fares come in regular, student, senior and half-fare bands, and a booking link on the Starhorse site leads to online seat reservations.
15 crossings
Routes they sail
Ordered by how often each crossing runs.
LucenaBalanacan
02:0002:3005:3009:00+8 more, last 22:30
84 a week
from₱520
BalanacanLucena
06:3009:3011:3016:30+1 more, last 18:30
35 a week
from₱520
San Pascual (Burias)Pasacao
05:3017:00
14 a week
from₱435
PasacaoSan Pascual (Burias)
05:0010:00
14 a week
from₱435
San Pascual (Burias)San Andres (Quezon)
09:3014:00
14 a week
from₱435
San Andres (Quezon)San Pascual (Burias)
13:0018:00
14 a week
from₱435
9 more crossings
Before you sail
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