Cokaliong Shipping Lines, Inc. is a shipping line based in Cebu City, Philippines. It operates both passenger and cargo ferries on eight routes in the Visayas and Mindanao regions and is one of the youngest shipping companies in the Philippines. CSLI was organized in 1989 by Chester Enterprises, Inc., a textile and ready-to-wear enterprise started in 1969 that diversified into the shipping business with the purchase a vessel from Japan in 1998, christened the M/V Filipinas Ozamis. In May 2012, the company acquired its ninth vessel, a 3,000-ton, 850-passenger vessel from Japan. On March 9, 2013, the line opened its 13th port of call with the opening of Cebu-Nasipit route. Through the years, the company has acquired twelve RORO passenger and cargo vessels traveling the national waters.
* She was built in 1993 by Naikai Zosen in Setoda, Japan. CSLI acquired her in 2007 from Ise Bay Ferry or Isewan Ferry in Japan, where she was known as the Mikawa Maru. She is the first ship with computerized engine monitoring system of Cokaliong Shipping. She can carry up to 686 passengers.
* She was the subject of the infamous Tayog-Tayog, an urban legend depicting the mysterious ghost ship which appears every night at 1 in the morning based from the residents of Lazi, Siquijor. This led to many people believing the ghost ships that had supposedly been appearing in the area the past 70 years were truly engkanto ships. It was later revealed that the ghost ship is turned out as a real passenger vessel as the PCG-Siquijor chased down the waters in order to see the mysterious ghost ship. The second alleged mysterious vessel was the M/V Trans-Asia 1, which also takes the same route but with an opposite schedule or route as M/V Filipinas Iligan.
* Built in 1997, she is the former M/V Eins Soya in Japan, before being purchased by CSLI from Japan in 2016. She can accommodate as much as 625 passengers as well as cargo.
* She is the former M/V Avrora Okushiri, the newest acquisition of Cokaliong Shipping, purchased in 2016 and. She was built in 1999, and is the sister ship of the M/V Filipinas Jagna. She is the third vessel to have third ship in the Cokaliong fleet to have a computerized engine monitoring system. She plies the Cebu-Surigao route.
Last July 23 2020, M/V Filipinas Dinagat was caught fire off the coast of Northern Cebu while underway to Palompon. As reported, there were no passengers and all the crew including the captains were rescued. The fire was placed under control around 10am in the morning the next day.
