CEBU CITY––Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia has called out officials of the Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) in the Batangas Port for causing the delays in the shipment of generator sets purchased by the provincial government.
It is seven months since Vinay Kumar and his crew left the UAE after washing ashore in Umm Al Quwain on board a shipping tanker abandoned at sea for almost three years.
This seems to be the last piece of news on the missing Filipino and other officers and crewmen of MV Gulf Livestock 1, perhaps the biggest single even seafarer loss in recent memory. We re-post this news in their memory.... SeafarerTimes.com
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SAN DIEGO — A cruise ship left on another trip Sunday after dropping off passengers who missed one stop in Mexico because of a COVID-19 outbreak among crew members.
GOVERNMENT agencies have yet to ascertain if any Filipino seafarers are among those on board dozens of cruise ships with reported Covid-19 infections now facing the same problems as last year—being refused entry by ports.
