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Improve services, BCCI urges shipping lines
Nonoy Lacson 05 Jun 2025 https://tribune.net.ph/2025/06/04/improve-services-bcci-urges-shipping-l...

ZAMBOANGA CITY — The Basilan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) expresses grave concern and disappointment over the “deteriorating quality of vessel services” plying the Zamboanga to Basilan route.

NegOr port eyed for San Juanico Bridge truck diversion
Mary Judaline Partlow June 10, 2025 https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1251880

DUMAGUETE CITY – A shipping line has applied for an alternate port call in Negros Oriental to help decongest the surge of trucks being diverted from the San Juanico Bridge.

Local shipowners to government: Help solve severe crewing crisis
Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon - June 8, 2025 https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/cebu-news/2025/06/08/2449032/local-...

CEBU, Philippines — The severe crewing crisis affecting domestic ships was one of the key issues discussed during the general membership meeting of the Philippine Coastwise Shipping Association Inc. (PCSA).

Charting tomorrow’s waters: MARINA steers toward the future
Judith Albano June 6, 2025 https://malaya.com.ph/weekly-features/special-features/charting-tomorrow...

As the Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) celebrates 51 years of service, the agency stands at a crucial turning point—where long-standing maritime expertise meets digital innovation and a renewed push for global relevance.

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.