Philippines Maritime Transport Profile 2026

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PHILIPPINES

MARITIME TRANSPORT PROFILE


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Maritime assets

Port area in 2025

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Ships built by country of building, annual

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Merchant fleet by country of beneficial ownership, annual

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Trade - Navigation total

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Water transport employment

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Activity

Container port throughput

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Port call and performance statistics

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Trade mode share

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Port Activity

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Trade openness index

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Seafarer supply

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Top 10 Freight Transport Expenditure in USD (Import)

Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts

Top 10 Freight transport work in thousand ton-km (Import)

Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts

Top 10 Freight Transport Expenditure in USD (Export)

Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts

Top 10 Freight transport work in thousand ton-km (Export)

Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts

Connectivity and performance

LPI

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Liner shipping connectivity index

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Port liner shipping connectivity index

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Bilateral liner shipping connectivity index

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Trade cost

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Container port performance index

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Remoteness index

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Sustainable freight transport index

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Percent of firms identifying transport as a major constraint

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Shipping emissions

EDGAR GHG 2025

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Transport energy consumption

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EDGAR AP 8.1

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GAINS emissions

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Adaptation and resilience

Average annual loss

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Port risk

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Investment on ports

Development financing

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Private participation in infrastructure

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Policy Landscape

Increasing transport activity

Philippine Development Plan 2023-20282023Passengers transported via air and sea increased (number of passengers, cumulative) = 202.34 million (from 35.72 in 2021) Cargo transported via air and sea increased (international and domestic) (metric ton, cumulative) = 1850 million (from 470.30 in 2021)2028
Philippines Country Report2023Percentage of trips via rail in Metro Manila increased (14% share to total passenger trips cumulative) Passengers transported via air and sea increased (202.34 million passengers, cumulative)2028

Modal shift

Philippine Development Plan 2023-20282023Passengers transported via air and sea increased (number of passengers, cumulative) = 202.34 million (from 35.72 in 2021) Cargo transported via air and sea increased (international and domestic) (metric ton, cumulative) = 1850 million (from 470.30 in 2021)2028
Philippines Country Report2023Percentage of trips via rail in Metro Manila increased (14% share to total passenger trips cumulative) Passengers transported via air and sea increased (202.34 million passengers, cumulative)2028