Starhorse Shipping Lines, Inc. is a domestic shipping company based in Lucena City, Quezon, Philippines. It was established in 2008 by entrepreneur and politician Victor Reyes, who was a former board member in Quezon Province. It mainly serves the provinces of Marinduque, Masbate, Quezon, and Romblon and is one of the leading domestic shipping companies operating in the Calabarzon, Bicol, Visayas, and Mimaropa regions.
Starhorse Shipping Lines, Inc. (SSLI) was established in 2008 by entrepreneur and Quezon Province provincial board member Victor A. Reyes, who was previously the President of the defunct domestic shipping company Viva Shipping Lines, Inc. in the 1990s. SSLI is now being managed by Victor Reyes' wife, Merian Hernandez-Reyes, following Reyes' death in 2016.[1]
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, the company was one of several ferry companies that assisted the Philippine government in helping locally stranded individuals return to their provinces.[6]
Starhorse Shipping Lines operates fourteen RORO vessels (Including the vessels from their sister company, Viva Peñafrancia Lines, as of December 2023. Some of these vessels were leased from DBP Leasing Corporation, while four were built by Moon-chang Shipbuilding Dockyard in Mokpo, South Korea:[7]
(NOTE: Not all of the vessels are listed here.)
These are the former vessels of Starhorse Shipping Lines:
MV Virgen de Peñafrancia VII
There was another MVVDPVII that Starhorse Shipping Lines previously operated, and operated on the Lucena-Marinduque Route, which is now currently
operated by Montenegro Lines, and now named
MV Reina De Luna (IMO number: 40001836)
MV Virgen de Peñafrancia VIII/Pinoy Roro 1
Before the South Korean Version of MVVDPVIII, This ship was aqcuired by SSLI, and operated on the Lucena-Marinduque Route.
Now operated by Jeanalyn Shipping and named to MV Pinoy Roro 1.