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PH maritime employers meet Romualdez, pushes for end of ambulance-chasing practice
Aaron Recuenco Dec 6, 2023 https://mb.com.ph/2023/12/5/ph-maritime-employers-meet-romualdez-pushes-...

PCG says Chinese-flagged cargo ship rammed PH boat in WPS
John Eric Mendoza December 07, 2023 https://globalnation.inquirer.net/223909/fwd-subject-cargo-vessel-hit-ph...(direct)&utm_medium=gallery

MANILA, Philippines — The cargo ship that hit a stationary Filipino boat in the West Philippine Sea was identified to be from China, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said on Thursday.

Shipping industry remains in choppy waters
December 6th, 2023 https://themalaysianreserve.com/2023/12/06/shipping-industry-remains-in-...

KUALA LUMPUR – The local shipping industry is still struggling to recover from the heavy hammering of the pandemic amid challenges stemming from the geopolitical crisis, its impact on crude oil prices and fluctuating freight rate, as well as the fragility of the global supply chain.

Shipping: innocent victim of the global financial crisis?
December 4, 2023 https://splash247.com/shipping-innocent-victim-of-the-global-financial-c...

Banking regulations are changing, and that’s potentially bad news for shipping, as Pierre Aury explains.

Seafarer’s compensable injury while playing basketball under the ‘personal comfort doctrine’
ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO | December 06,2023 https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/543891/seafarers-compensable-injury-w...

A seafarer is entitled total and permanent disability benefits for the injury he suffered while playing basketball on board a ship during his free time.

Seafarers rally at Senate to reject escrow provision in final version of Magna Carta for Seafarers
Cristina Eloisa Baclig - December 05, 2023 https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1870964/for-posting-edited-seafarers-rally...

Labor group asks bicameral panel to guard vs escrow provision in Magna Carta for Seafarers
Cristina Eloisa Baclig - December 04, 2023 https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1870232/labor-group-asks-bicameral-panel-t...

MANILA, Philippines—A labor group has called on the bicameral conference committee that will tackle the proposed Magna Carta for Filipino Seafarers to scrap the “anti-seafarer” escrow provision inserted in the bill.

First-ever ship-building facility in Bohol opens
30/11/2023 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/first-ever-ship-building-facility-i...

Local officials welcomed the opening of the first-ever ship-building and ship repair facility in Bohol province.

The sprawling Artemis Marine and Industrial Construction Inc. (AMICI) ship-building facility in Barangay Cruz, Buenavista town, Bohol province was inaugurated on Tuesday, November 28. (Calvin D. Cordova)

Philippines re-elected to IMO Council
December 2, 2023 https://www.portcalls.com/philippines-re-elected-to-imo-council/

Maersk settles $44m Ever Given lawsuit against Evergreen, BSM and Shoei Kisen
Gary Dixon 1 December 2023 https://www.tradewindsnews.com/law/maersk-settles-44m-ever-given-lawsuit...

Danish giant confirms it has withdrawn its compensation claim over 2021 Suez Canal blockage

Danish line AP Moller-Maersk has settled a big compensation claim arising from the blockage of the Suez Canal by the Ever Given boxship in 2021.