Holiday Notice – 2025 Holy Week Schedule - April 17-20, 2025
28 March 2025
Re: Holiday Notice – 2025 Holy Week Schedule - April 17-20, 2025
Dear Valued Customers,
This is to inform you of the terminal schedule, container depot schedule, shipping instruction cut off, booking acceptance, customer service online cargo releasing schedule, and operations schedule for the coming Holy Week holidays.
Please refer to the details below for your guidance.
I. Port operations schedule
- Manila North Harbour
- April 17 – Maundy Thursday
- Vessel, Yard, and Gates Operations – 24 hours open
- April 18 – Good Friday
- Gate Closure – 0400H
- Port Closure – 0700H
- April 19 – Black Saturday
- Gates Opening – 0500H
- Resumption of Full Port Operations – 0700H
- April 20 – Easter Sunday
- Vessel, Yard, and Gates Operations – 24 hours open
*Note: ACTS online payment and e-ADR facility will remain available 24/7 during these dates.
You may access the ACTS online payment facility via this website: https://acts.ictsi.com/
To process an e-ADR, you may follow the steps in below user guides:
ICTSI ACTS e-ADR - BDO User Guide: OTC, POB & BOB
ICTSI ACTS e-ADR - UBP User Guide: POB
- Manila South Harbour – will be suspending operations from 0700H, April 18, 2025 (Good Friday) until 0700H, April 19, 2025 (Black Saturday)
II. Container depot schedule
April 17 - 18, 2025 – Maundy Thursday to Good Friday
| Container Depot | Operation Hours |
| | April 17, 2025
| April 18, 2025 |
| TRANS-OCEAN (CY1/CY7) | 0800H until 1700H |
Closed |
| TRANS-OCEAN (CABUYAO) | 0800H until 1700H |
SEACONTAINER DEPOT
| 0800H until 1700H |
| DP WORLD (MILT) | 0800H until 1700H (for empty return only)
|
April 19 - 20, 2025 – Black Saturday to Easter Sunday
| Container Depot | Operation Hours |
| | April 19, 2025 | April 20, 2025 |
| TRANS-OCEAN (CY1/CY7) | 0800H until 1700H |
Closed |
| TRANS-OCEAN (CABUYAO) | 0800H until 1700H |
| SEACONTAINER DEPOT | 0800H until 1700H |
| DP WORLD (MILT) | 0800H until 1700H (for empty return only) |
III. Booking acceptance and outbound documentation requests will be up to Holy Wednesday (April 16 / 1730H) only. All requests received beyond this hour will be confirmed when office resumes on April 21 (Monday).
IV. Customer service online inbound cargo releasing schedule will as follows:
| Customer service schedule | Schedule |
Online inbound cargo releasing | April 17, 2025 | April 18, 2025 | April 19, 2025 | April 20, 2025 |
| 1000H to 1200H only | CLOSED | CLOSED | CLOSED |
V. There will be no changes on the final shipping instruction cut off. For complete details, kindly refer to customer service guide through the following link: http://www.oocl.com/philippines/eng/localinformation/customerserviceguide/exportprocedures/Pages/default.aspx
Please note that final and complete shipping instruction is needed for your cargo not to be unmanifested and retained on board. To avoid penalties such as but not limited to late shipping instruction fee of USD100, we encourage you to submit final shipping instruction no later than the standard cut off.
VI. Operations counter service schedule will be as follows:
| Operations service schedule (import/export) | Operation Hours |
| | April 17, 2025 | April 18, 2025 | April 19, 2025 | April 20, 2025 |
Export Receiving/ Pre-advise | 24 hours open | Closed from 0700H Friday to 0700H Saturday | Open from 0700H onwards | 24 hours open |
| Import Releasing | 1000H to 12000H only | CLOSED | CLOSED | CLOSED |
The following emergency contact numbers for your perusal.
i.) Customer Service Contacts
Note: Copy furnish Ebony Caño (email address: [email protected]; Mobile number: 09178395024)
ii.) Sales Contacts
| Location | Bound / Trade | Mobile Number/ Email address | Contact Person |
Manila | Export Dry Intra Asia and Australia | 0917 881 5803 [email protected] | Katrina Bustamante (Assistant Manager) |
| Import Reefer and Dry All Trade | 0917 855 6771 [email protected] | Ashley Tumaneng (Senior Account Executive) |
| Export Dry US & Canada, Latin America and Europe | 0917 576 0023 [email protected] | Charish Ramos (Account Executive) |
| Export Dry All Trade (Support) | [email protected] | Miguelito Domingo (Sales Assistant) |
| | Reefer Export All Trade / Export Dry Escalation | 0917 537 7676 [email protected] | Arem Cruz (Regional Sales Manager) |
Note: Copy furnish Jaremy Arem Cruz (email address: [email protected]; Mobile number: 09175377676)
iii.) Operations Contacts
| Location | Scope | Mobile Number/ Email address | Contact Person |
Manila | Operations (vessel and terminal concerns) | 09178395002 [email protected] | Joel Zarate |
| Operations (equipment and depot concerns) | 09178179551 [email protected] | Rachelle Adap |
Terminal Checker – 24/7 Pre-advise
(both MICT and South Harbour) | 8554 8053 [email protected] | |
For complete contact lists, you may refer to the following link:
http://www.oocl.com/philippines/eng/localinformation/localcontacts/Pages/default.aspx.
Thank you very much for patronizing OOCL!
Respectfully Yours,
Customer Service Department
OOCL (PHILIPPINES) INC.
(This is an electronic letter. No signature is required)