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The Spanish built a shipyard and naval base in Subic bay in the 1800s. During the Philippine Revolution, the Cuban-Filipino Vicente Catalan and his fleet in the nascent Philippine Navy, seized Subic from the Spanish and delivered it to the First Philippine Republic. Afterwards when the Americans invaded, it became an American naval base.
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Subic Bay is a bay on the west coast of the island of Luzon in the Philippines, about 100 kilometers (62 mi) northwest of Manila Bay.An extension of the South China Sea, its shores were formerly the site of a major United States Navy facility, U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay, now an industrial and commercial area known as the Subic Bay Freeport Zone under the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority.
Kinabalu North Shipyard & Maritime Sdn Bhd: Malaysia: Kota Kinabalu, Sabah: Titan, Floating Dry Dock 56 ... Philippines: Subic Bay Freeport Zone: Dry Dock No. 5 370 100.0
Subic Bay is part of Luzon Sea on the west coast of the island of Luzon in Zambales, Philippines, about 100 kilometers northwest of Manila Bay.Formerly the U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay, it is now the location the Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBF) managed by the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA).
Note: In September 2012, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III signed Administrative Order No. 29, mandating that all government agencies use the name "West Philippine Sea" to refer to the parts of the South China Sea within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone, and tasked the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) to use the name in official maps.
Shipping Lines Commenced Operations No. of Vessels Remarks Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation: 1973: 142: Formerly Sulpicio Lines from 1973 to 2012; changed name and stopped passenger services following the tragic sinking of its passenger ship MV Princess of the Stars in 2008.
By 2015, the Hanjin Subic Shipyard became one of the top ten top 10 shipbuilders in the world in terms of orderbook. [3] At one point, the Philippines is the fifth largest shipbuilding nation in the world, largely owing to the output of the Subic shipyard. [7] At its peak in 2016, the shipyard employed 35,000 people. [8]