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We need a definite course correction to attract more women seafarers: Director General of Shipping
03/10/2019 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/we-need-a-definite-course-correctio...

What is the strategy to attract and promote more women in seafaring?

Crewman watching music videos before ship grounded
3 October 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-49911746

A crewman was watching music videos on his phone when he should have been monitoring his cargo ship's progress, investigators have said.

The officer of the watch did not spot until it was too late the MV Priscilla had moved from its planned route.

Investigators said he then put the boat on an alternative route that placed the ship in "imminent danger".

Stowaways threatened terrified cargo ship captain while chucking poo atzoe his sailors
Zoe Drewett Oct 2019 https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/02/stowaways-threatened-terrified-cargo-ship...

Passenger vessel exec nabbed for firearms
Joey Gabieta - 2 Oct 2019 https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1172996/passenger-vessel-exec-nabbed-for-f...

TACLOBAN CITY –– The Philippine Coast Guard and the police arrested an official of a passenger vessel for alleged possession of several firearms and ammunition on Wednesday, October 2.

2 PHL fishers dead in Taiwan bridge collapse
Recto Mercene & Samuel P. Medenilla October 3, 2019 https://businessmirror.com.ph/2019/10/03/2-phl-fishers-dead-in-taiwan-br...

THE bodies of two Filipinos were retrieved early Wednesday from under the collapsed Nanfangao Bridge in Taiwan, according to the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Meco).

Filipino seafarers safe after South Korea tanker blast
October 1, 2019 - https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2019/10/01/1956503/filipino-seafarers...

MANILA, Philippines — The 15 Filipino seafarers, who were crew members of an oil tanker that exploded in a South Korean port last Saturday, are safe.

€24bn in fossil fuel subsidies ‘a perverse incentive’ for shipping pollution
02/10/2019 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/e24bn-in-fossil-fuel-subsidies-a-pe...

Philippines to protest Chinese ships’ presence in Ayungin Shoal
Darryl John Esguerra - October 02, 2019 https://globalnation.inquirer.net/180555/philippines-to-protest-chinese-...

MANILA, Philippines – Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has ordered the filing of a diplomatic protest over the presence of Chinese vessels in Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea.

Badjaos get free food, haircut this Maritime week
October 1, 2019 https://pia.gov.ph/press-releases/releases/1027927

SURIGAO CITY, Surigao del Norte, Oct. 1 -- For this year’s celebration of the Maritime week, a community of Badjaos got themselves a treat when members of the Surigao Port Community led by the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) conducted on Thursday, September 26, 2019 community service at their settlement in Canlanipa, a coastal barangay in this city.

One seafarer found dead from sunken Bourbon Rhode, 10 still missing
30 September 2019 https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/news/americas/one-seafarer-found-dead-...

The body of one of the 11 missing seafarers from the anchor handler Bourbon Rhode, which sank in Hurricane Lorenzo has been recovered.