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Tianjin forced into greater lockdown as Covid-19 cases spread to Shanghai and Dalian
Sam Chambers January 14, 2022 https://splash247.com/tianjin-forced-into-greater-lockdown-as-covid-19-c...

Cases of Covid-19 are spreading in Tianjin, forcing wider lockdowns, while other Chinese port cities including Dalian and Shanghai reported cases yesterday sparking fears of more supply chain chaos.

Taiwan's Yang Ming Marine gives 12 months of wages as year-end bonus
01/15/2022 https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202201150005

Taipei, Jan. 15 (CNA) Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp., one of the leading container cargo shippers in Taiwan, has decided to raise year-end bonuses for its employees to the amount equivalent to 12 months of wages on average, and has also decided to raise salaries by an average of 4 percent, after a bumper year that saw a significant rise in shipping rates and profit.

Overseas Filipinos’ personal remittances sustain growth in November 2021 — BSP
TED CORDERO January 14, 2022 https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/money/economy/818193/overseas-filipinos-...

Money sent home by overseas Filipinos continued its uptrend in November 2021, a month before the consumption-heavy Christmas season, data released by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on Friday showed.

29 days after Typhoon Odette: M/V Tug Trinity Strong, 12 crew members still missing
Kevin A. Lagunda January 14, 2022 https://ph.news.yahoo.com/29-days-typhoon-odette-mv-034600140.html?gucco...

32 COVID-19-positive seafarers from Manila arrive in Zamboanga City
John Unson - January 14, 2022 https://www.philstar.com/nation/2022/01/14/2153869/32-covid-19-positive-...

COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Thirty-two passengers of a boat from Manila tested positive for COVID-19 in a local government screening facility in the Zamboanga City seaport.

Foreign seafarers say they were tricked into servitude on Iranian ships
Katie McQue 14 Jan 2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iran-shipping-seafarers...

EO adopting ‘integrated approach’ in int’l maritime dev’t signed
Azer Parrocha January 13, 2022 https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1165311

MANILA – President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has signed an executive order (EO) adopting an “integrated approach” in the ratification and accession to international maritime organization conventions and instruments.

Duterte reforms body on international maritime conventions
Alexis Romero - January 14, 2022 | https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/01/14/2153788/duterte-reforms-bo...

MANILA, Philippines — President Duterte has reconstituted the inter-agency body on maritime conventions to enhance the level of safety of shipping and advance the training and certification standards for seafarers.

New Palace order reconstitutes maritime inter-agency committee
Samuel P. Medenilla January 13, 2022 https://businessmirror.com.ph/2022/01/13/new-palace-order-reconstitutes-...

President Duterte has signed Executive Order (EO) No.159 reconstituting the Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee for the Ratification and Accession to and Implementation of Maritime Convention (ICCRAIMC).

Overdue crew levels at record lows as more seafarers are vaccinated
Cichen Shen 13 Jan 2022

Data from the Neptune Declaration Crew Change Indicator shows 3.7% of seafarers were still working beyond their contracts last month, which is the lowest level since the tally was first published in May 2021

Some seafarers remain hesitant about being inoculated while the vaccines are short supplied, or not recognized in certain geographies. And access to the booster jab is already said to have become a new challenge