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Day Nine: Seafarers Feeling Lonely and Isolated

Feelings of isolation and loneliness are increasingly impacting seafarers. Living and working onboard a ship can have its positives, but where there is a lack of camaraderie, friendship and interaction then seafarers report alone, homesick and depressed.

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Day Ten: Seafarers Suffering from Tiredness and Fatigue

Seaman from Arevalo disappears from ship
Wilhelm Mantua February 6, 2019

ILOILO City – A seaman from Barangay Mohon, Arevalo district disappeared from the international shipping vessel where he was working.

Wilhelm Mantua, 25, was a graduate of John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University (JBLFMU) – Molo.

Greek ship, crew detained after collision with Malaysian vessel in Johor waters
Zurairi AR 09 February 2019 https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2019/02/09/greek-ship-crew-detai...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 9 — The Malaysian Marine Department (Mardep) has detained Greece-registered bulk carrier Piraeus and its crew today after a collision with its vessel MV Polaris in the Johor new port limits earlier today.

Call for Action on Sewage Treatment with No-Sludge Production
Wei Chen 2019-02-09 https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/call-for-action-on-sewage-...

Malaysia vessel Polaris, Greece-registered ship collide in Singapore waters: MPA
09 Feb 2019 07:05PM https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/malaysia-ship-polaris-gre...

SINGAPORE: Malaysian buoy-laying vessel Polaris and a Greece-registered ship collided in Singapore waters on Saturday (Feb 9), the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said.

Supramax arrested in Singapore
8 Feb 2019 https://shipandbunker.com/news/apac/102899-supramax-arrested-in-singapore

The supramax carrier Universal Bremen was arrested today in Singapore.

The detention took place at 12:15 p.m. local time following action by local law firm Rajah & Tan Singapore LLP, according to the latest records from the Supreme Court of Singapore.

Beneficiaries of seafarer’s death compensation
ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO |February 05,2019 https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/215582/beneficiaries-of-seafarers-dea...

The legal battle for death compensation of the deceased seafarer, in some instances, becomes a “telenovela” case due to confusion as to the rightful recipients of the death benefits.

Cargo ship hit rocks, breached in Swedish waters
Erofey Schkvarkin February 8, 2019 https://maritimebulletin.net/2019/02/08/cargo-ship-hit-rocks-breached-in...

Untaxed Greek Shipping Oligarchs Renew Voluntary Tax Agreement
February 8, 2019 https://www.thenationalherald.com/230060/untaxed-greek-shipping-oligarch...

ATHENS – With Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras having backed away from his pledge to “crush the oligarchy,” and tax Greece’s essentially tax-free shipping industry – the world’s largest – the owners renewed a deal to make voluntary payments.

Seaport anti-drug task group created in Iloilo
February 8, 2019 https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1786728

IN A move to ensure that no illegal drugs will enter Iloilo City through seaports, a Seaport Inter-Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group (SIADITG) in Western Visayas has been created.

Iloilo City Mayor Jose Espinosa III, along with representatives of eight agencies, signed the Memorandum of Agreement for the creation of task group on Thursday, February 7.