THIRTY-NINE seafarers, icluding five Filipinos, are missing after their Chinese fishing vessel capsized in the central Indian Ocean, state media reported Wednesday.
A.P. Moller-Maersk has started upskilling Filipino seafarers with its groundbreaking order of 19 state-of-the-art methanol-enabled vessels aimed at "greening" its entire operations.
The Philippines and Indonesia, which are home to just under 21% of the world’s crew members, are taking action to support their seafarers in developing modern skill sets as shipping decarbonizes.
International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary-General Kitack Lim has praised the Philippines for getting positive results in the Independent Evaluation (IE) held in December 2022 and European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) Inspection in Vietnam on May 9 to 11.
Recently, seafarers have been detained and prosecuted by Egyptian security authorities with the risk of being faced with a fine or potential jail sentence, as well as missing the ships they are signing on to or their flights back home.
MANILA, Philippines — Money sent home by overseas Filipinos to their families sustained its uptrend in March, but an analyst expects growth to be tempered by inflation heating up in developed economies.
