A seafarer’s compliance with the POEA Standard Employment Contract (SEC) conflict resolution procedure presupposes that the CDP came up with an assessment as to their fitness to work before the ...

WE join the overjoyed families and friends of the 17 Filipino seafarers who finally came home after their 429-day ordeal in the hands of Yemen rebels. This must feel like an extended Christmas holiday ...

Thanks to intervention from ITF, he and the rest of the crew got sent food and finally got paid in Dec, two weeks before their contracts expired. An abandoned seafarer is one who has been left ...

2024 was the worst year on record for seafarer abandonment, and Filipinos were the fourth highest nationality among those abandoned. This is according to the International Transport Workers' ...

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – A record levels of ship abandonment on the high seas has left thousands of seafarers stranded without pay, provisions, or a way home. In 2023, the Inspector ...

MANILA: The 17 Filipino seafarers recently released by the Yemeni Islamist group Houthis were set to arrive in the Philippines on Thursday night (Jan 23) after more than a year in captivity ...

MANILA, Philippines – Senator Loren Legarda pins her hopes for better working conditions for Filipino seafarers, after the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of their Magna Carta was ...

Marcos signed Republic Act 12021 or the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers in September last year. Marcos said the signing of the IRR – only three months after it was enacted – reinforces his ...

Each day of delay in issuing Seafarer Identity Documents represents lost opportunities, missed contracts, and potential economic setbacks. In an increasingly competitive global maritime market ...

Reinforcing the administration’s commitment to safeguarding the welfare of Filipino seafarers, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. witnessed the signing of the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) ...