United Filipino Seafarers (UFS), a Manila-based crew advocacy group, has called on the government to establish an Admiralty Court. The Philippines has one of the worst maritime safety records in the world and is also beset by high levels of corruption. UFS president Nelson Ramirez said an Admiralty...
https://splash247.com/call-to-establish-admiralty-court-in-manila-to-counter-floating-coffins/
International Container Terminal Services revealed plans to invest more than PHP5 billion to develop the Iloilo Port Complex and the Port of Dumangas in the province of Iloilo, Western Visayas, Philippines, as part of its aim to modernize the infrastructure of the ports and make them an international gateway concerning cargo movement.
As such, ICTSI has submitted a Letter of Intent to the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), seeking to assist the Authority in upgrading the port network in the...
https://safety4sea.com/ictsi-to-invest-in-two-philippine-ports-to-boost-cargo-movement/
As a part of the NYK Mirai Project, NYK successfully conducted an international short-term student-exchange program with the NYK-TDG Maritime Academy (NTMA), which NYK operates in the Philippines and national maritime schools in Japan during the months of August through October 2018.
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Short-term study abroad from Japan
From August 29 to September 8, 2018, 23 students from four schools — i.e., Toyama, Oshima, Hiroshima, and Yuge colleges of the National Institute of Technology...
ReCAAP, the Asian piracy watchdog, has issued a warning of potential attacks on ships in and around Philippine waters. The Philippine Coast Guard has provided information that a group of approximately 10 Abu Sayyaf members armed with pistols, rifles and grenade launchers are planning to conduct...
https://splash247.com/shipping-warned-of-imminent-abu-sayyaf-strike/
According to the ReCAAP ISC, there are information that a group of approximately 10 ASG (Abu Sayyaf Group) members armed with pistol, rifles and grenade launcher is planning to carry out kidnapping activities in Sabah.
These activities may take place at any opportune time in undisclosed areas in Sabah, mainly targeting businessmen or ship’s crew of foreign vessels passing through the area.
The group is using unmarked coloured blue and white motorbanca locally known as jungkong.
Ship masters and...
https://safety4sea.com/warning-of-kidnapping-activities-in-sabah/
In its weekly report for 23-29 October, ReCAAP ISC informed of two actual incidents of armed robbery against ships in Asia, one in Batangas, Philippines and another one in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
The first incident involved the Maltese-flagged oil tanker ‘Searacer’. While at anchor at Tabangao Customary Anchorage, Batangas, Philippines, the security personnel sighted two perpetrators armed with knives at the forecastle of the ship. The duty officer sounded the ship’s alarm, and the...
https://safety4sea.com/two-ships-robbed-in-philippine-and-indonesian-anchorages/
Magsaysay Maritime Corporation announced that the MOL Magsaysay Maritime Academy (MMMA) was officially inaugurated on September 12, 2018 in Dasmariñas City, Cavite, Philippines.
The Academy has a full college program for Filipinos and other students from the region. The curriculum aims to increase the students’ competencies, as needed by the global shipping industry.
The Academy is located on a 13.7-hectares facility which houses a Ship-In Campus, Student Complex, Academic Building, and Student...
https://safety4sea.com/new-maritime-academy-launched-in-philippines/
A fastcraft bound for Tubigon from Cebu City and a cargo vessel accidentally collided in waters at the vicinity of the accident prone Lawis Ledge off Talisay City on Thursday (Oct. 18) night.
The container ship M/V Ocean United at around 8:45 p.m. hit the rear end of FastCat M11 which had 70 passengers on board and 12 rolling cargoes, a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) report said.
According to the PCG, three of the passengers were injured with one of them rushed to a hospital for immediate medical...
http://container-news.com/boxship-collided-fast-ferry-philippines/
The President of Philippines issued an executive order (EO), in late September, further strengthening the Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) to ensure the country’s full compliance with the 1978 International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW).
Signed by President Rodrigo Duterte on 21 September, the EO 63 foresees that the MARINA should establish systems and mechanisms ‘for the promotion and protection of the well-being of the seafarers...
https://safety4sea.com/philippines-strengthens-compliance-with-stcw-convention/
The Filipino Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has directed the Philippine Embassy in New Delhi to help 21 Filipino seafarers who are currently stranded at a port in southeastern India. The seafarers were abandoned by their employer more than three months ago.
Filipino Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter S. Cayetano instructed the Embassy to send Consular officers to Kakinada Port, after he was informed of the stranded seafarers on board the ‘MV Evangelia M’, a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier.
Th...
https://safety4sea.com/21-filipino-seafarers-stranded-in-india-for-over-3-months/