United Filipino Seafarers
New Guidelines on the implementation of IMO-SCTW Convention Martime Training Institution
Voluntary Arbitration
The WOmen in the Manning Industry
New Guidelines on the implementation of IMO-SCTW Convention Martime Training Institution
National Conciliation and Mediation Board
Ratification of ILO Maritime Labour Convention
BFAR starts nationwide list up for fisherfolks
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has started to formally sign up the country’s estimated one million fishermen in the newly launched Municipal Fisherfolk Registration Program (FishR). The fisheries bureau is also offering P200 million worth of medical and health insurance to entice them to sign up. FishR was launched in line [...]
PH ships rice to HK; Jakarta next export mart
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has shipped the second tranche of rice shipment to Hong Kong last Wednesday. A shipment of 15 metric tons (MT) of black, brown and red rice from the Don Bosco Multi-Purpose Cooperative (DBMPC) in Cotabato was exported last May 15 to Hong Kong, the department said in a statement. [...]
Subic freeport tourist traffic up 12% in Q1
The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) has reported a 12-percent growth in tourism in the first quarter of the year. SBMA Chairman Roberto Garcia said before the weekend that in particular, the number of participants in sporting events here grew by 308 percent, while those attending meetings, incentive travels, conventions and exhibit events (Mice) [...]
Probe on US Navy ship grounding 90% complete
The investigation of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on the grounding of a US Navy minesweeper at the Tubbataha reef is 90 percent complete and would release a full report by next week. PCG spokesperson Armand Balilo said the report will be submitted next week to Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya who will then [...]
Korean bank taps local classification firm on ship financing
The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Korea Eximbank) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Korea Register of Shipping (KR) in areas of financing and technical consulting on shipbuilding and offshore plants. The MOU was inked at the bank’s Yeouido headquarters. The MOU commits Korea Eximbank to enlist KR’s ship classification service in ship [...]
Beefed up security behind puzzling 1-year hiatus of pirates?
On May 10th, pirate-busters celebrated the fact that one year had passed since a ship was successfully seized by Somali hijackers. Pirates have been attacking vessels passing the Horn of Africa since at least 2005, when they received a $315,000 ransom for Feisty Gas, a ship owned by a company in Hong Kong. [...]
Indian port suffers major retreat in cargo throughput
India’s port of Mumbai suffered a major drop in container traffic for April with overall cargo falling 30 percent to 3.85 million tons from the previous month. The decline brought the year-on-year contraction to 81 percent or a drop of 2,577 in 20-foot equivalent units (TEU). “April’s total throughput was much lower than the [...]
EU co-funding 3-year maritime safety research
The European Union (EU) is co-funding a European research undertaking that would help increase safety onboard sea-going vessels. The EU research project would run for three years and was named CASCADe or model-based Co-operative and Adaptive Ship-based Context Aware Design. CASCADe aims to address the lack of symbiosis which exists between current bridge design, [...]
