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Seaman wins $60,000 in disability benefits
Chloe Mari A. Hufana October 4, 2024 https://www.bworldonline.com/labor-and-management/2024/10/04/625748/seam...

THE Supreme Court (SC) ordered Fleet Management Services, Inc., its Philippine branch, and its Filipino director to pay a seaman $60,000 in permanent and total disability benefits with an attorney’s fee of 10%, ruling that the company doctor failed to give the worker a final assessment.

Injured Chinese crew member of cargo vessel rescued off Pangasinan
Joanna Rose Aglibot September 30, 2024 https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1988354/injured-chinese-crew-member-of-car...

SAN ANTONIO, Zambales — The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) had evacuated an injured Chinese crew member from a cargo vessel in the waters off Bolinao town in Pangasinan.

New seafarer law could have wide-reaching impact
3/10/2024 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/new-seafarer-law-could-have-wide-re...

Following a lengthy legislative process, the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers was finally signed into law in the Philippines on 23 September 2024.

Bulk carrier grounds in super typhoon off Taiwan
Sam Chambers October 2, 2024 https://splash247.com/bulk-carrier-grounds-in-super-typhoon-off-taiwan/

Panama Maritime Authority (PMA) To Remove Sanction-Evading Ships From its Registry
02/10/2024 https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/panama-maritime-authority-pma-to-re...

Maersk Narrows Seafarer Gender Gap With "Equal at Sea" Recruitment Drive
Sep 29, 2024 https://maritime-executive.com/article/maersk-narrows-seafarer-gender-ga...

Workers’ group flags ‘discriminatory provision’ vs seafarers
Dexter Cabalza - October 01, 2024 https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1988507/workers-group-flags-discriminatory...

MANILA, Philippines — While stakeholders have welcomed the enactment of the long-delayed Republic Act (RA) No. 12021, or the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers, a national trade union center said it would contest a discriminatory provision of the law that unduly burdens sailors.

How to tackle harassment onboard
Pierre Aury October 1, 2024 https://splash247.com/how-to-tackle-harassment-onboard/

Pierre Aury has some suggestions to make life at sea fairer.

Whenever shipping is mentioned, outside shipping circles, it is always with the same clichés along the lines of shipping is the blood of the global economy or shipping carries over 90% of global trade volumes with the seaborne trade standing at around 11bn tons annually carried by around 55,000 vessels.

Protecting Filipino seafarers, among the best in the world
The Editorial Board October 1, 2024 https://www.manilatimes.net/2024/10/01/opinion/editorial/protecting-fili...

A WEEK ago, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed into law the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers, which is designed to protect the rights of the country's ships' crew and enshrines the provisions of the Maritime Labor Convention in our laws.

Seafarers worry over ‘pro-shipowner’ provision in new Magna Carta
Michelle Abad Sep 29, 2024 https://www.rappler.com/philippines/seafarers-worry-pro-shipowner-provis...