Ang Daungan ng IloiloAng Daungan ng Iloilo is a Marked Structure, NHCP located at Iloilo City, Iloilo City, Region VI.
Marker Texts:
Ang Daungan ng Iloilo
Binuksan sa pangangalakal na pandaigdig ayon sa kautusan ng pamahalaang Kastila noong ika-29 ng Setyembre, 1855. Ang unang tuwirang eksportasyon na 270 toneladang asukal ay inilulan sa bapor “Pet” na patungong Melbourne, Australya, noong ika-2 ng Marso, 1859. Ang unang tuwirang pag-angkat na binubuo ng mga makinaryang pangabyaw ay nagbuhat sa Glasgow, Britanya, lulan ng “Henry Darling” noong 1863.
Date Unveiled: September 29, 1975
_____
Port of Iloilo
Opened to international trade by royal order of the Supreme Spanish Government 0n 29 September 1855. Nicholas Loney, first British Vice-Consul and first foreign merchant in Iloilo, landed at this port on 31 July 1856. Visited by Sir John Bowring, Governor of Hongkong, in 1859. The first direct exportation, consisting of 270 tons of sugar, was shipped in the rig pet to Melbourne, Australia, on 2 March 1859, and the first direct importation, consisting of sugar mill machineries, came on the Henry Darling from Glasgow, Great Britain, in 1863.