Trade volume between China and European countries has grown dramatically under the Belt and Road framework over the past few years.
Life for today's sailors has become much easier. The people who serve along the maritime economic belt have witnessed the changes in their everyday work.
Helping Filipino seafarers
BusinessMirror Editorial - October 4, 2018 https://businessmirror.com.ph/helping-filipino-seafarers/
The Philippines has been the world’s chief supplier of seafarers since 1987. It is common to find Filipinos navigating and working in vessels in any part of the seas all over the world.
The maritime industry does not appear to be prepared for any of the major issues it faces, including the ones deemed to have potentially the biggest impact on the sector such as cyber-attacks and data theft.
The President, Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA), Mary Haman, has charged females wishing to come into the maritime industry to be courageous if they must be successful.
The ship tycoon, the con men and a €100m scam
John Gapper June 28, 2018 When fraudsters embarked on an elaborate sting, they made one big miscalculation: their victim
(MENAFN - Asia Times) A Filipino seafarer lost more than PHP600,000 to a woman he met on social media and with whom he thought he was in a relationship.
The Eastern Mediterranean’s largest port, Piraeus, was the star of the recent China Global Television Network (CGTN) report ‘Where the maritime silk road meets land’.