seafarertimes.com ~ Maritime News for Filipino Seafarers

Exchange rates in seafarers’ remittances
Atty. Dennis Gorecho June 6, 2025 https://businessmirror.com.ph/2025/06/06/exchange-rates-in-seafarers-rem...

IN 2024, there are 504,057 deployed sea-based workers, with corresponding remittances totaling US$6,941,085,000.

It is estimated that there is one Filipino seafarer for every four to five crew on board a vessel at any time.

Keep calm and sail on
June 5, 2025 https://splash247.com/keep-calm-and-sail-on/

Carl Martin Faanessen, CEO of Manila-based Noatun Maritime, reckons too many column inches are being spent exaggerating the plight of seafarers. “We are at risk of placing an entire group of highly skilled, adaptable and professional workers in a bucket,” he writes.

Detained seafarers’ wives seek help from Marcos for husbands’ freedom
Michelle Abad Jun 6, 2025 https://www.rappler.com/philippines/overseas-filipinos/detained-algeria-...

Crewing in the digital age
June 5, 2025 https://splash247.com/crewing-in-the-digital-age/

In the latest instalment from Ship Concept 2035, our brand new magazine, Splash reporters detail a recent, pertinent workshop at Geneva Dry.

Inside the Global Crisis of Seafarer Exploitation
June 3, 2025 https://www.marinelink.com/news/inside-global-crisis-seafarer-526461

When coast guard officers boarded junior seafarer Omkar Pawar’s ship off Trinidad and Tobago in 2020, one of them pointed a gun at his face.

“They searched the ship. After two days, they found 450 kilograms of cocaine in the tank,” said Pawar.

9 Filipino seafarers repatriated from conflict-hit Yemen
Marita Moaje June 4, 2025 https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1251481

MANILA – The Philippine government has successfully repatriated nine Filipino seafarers stranded for months aboard the oil tanker MV Rival at Ras Isa Port in Yemen, amid escalating conflict.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said the seafarers arrived safely at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 in Pasay City on Tuesday evening.

Pirates kidnap injured seafarer in cargo ship raid
Gary Dixon 2 June 2025

Reefer was boarded by seven armed men off Sao Tome and Principe

A crew member has been injured and abducted in a pirate raid on a reefer off West Africa.

Robbers tie up and injure seafarers in cargo ship raid

Reporting organisation UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) and maritime security companies said the Curacao-flagged ship was boarded by seven armed men on Friday afternoon, off Sao Tome and Principe.

Seafarer’s death in Columbia River reveals murky maritime oversight
Lizz Giordano / May 27, 2025 https://www.cascadepbs.org/investigations/2025/05/seafarers-death-columb...

ITF: Seafarer abandonment cases in 2025 to surpass 2024 record
The Editorial Team May 29, 2025 https://safety4sea.com/itf-seafarer-abandonment-cases-in-2025-to-surpass...

According to new figures released by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) revealed that vessel abandonments have surged nearly 33% year on year.

SSS compulsory coverage of sea-based OFWs
Persida Acosta May 31, 2025 https://www.manilatimes.net/2025/05/31/legal-advice/sss-compulsory-cover...