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(Eagle News) — Coast Guard personnel recovered two bodies in search and rescue operations for the missing crew members of LCT Cebu Great Ocean that ran aground off Surigao del Norte waters on April 19. A report from the PCG said the body of Klint Auxtero was found off Barangay Oslao in San Francisco at 6:05 a.m. on April 23. At 6:38 a.m., the PCG said the body of Limuel Dadivas was found in Barangay […]
(Eagle News) — A cargo vessel caught fire off the waters of Batangas on Monday, July 20, the Philippine Coast Guard said. According to the PCG, it dispatched BRP Boracay (FPB-2401) to combat the fire onboard Philippine-registered cargo vessel, MV Moreta Venture, which was located 1.2 nautical miles southwest off Marikaban Island at 4:53 a.m. BRP Boracay (FPB-2401) was berthed in Sta. Clara when the PCG Command Center received the distress call. Commodore Leovigildo Panopio […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said 247 crew members of two cruise ships for a Germany-based travel agency arrived in the country on Wednesday morning, April 8, 2020. The DFA welcomed the crew members of cruise ships MS Amadea and MS Amera who returned from Frankfurt, Germany. “The repatriates arrived this morning via a chartered flight contracted by BSM Crew Service Center Philippines Inc. and Five Star Marine Services Corp., […]
(Eagle News)—-All 163 Filipinos who are members of the crew of a cruise ship that got stranded in rough seas off Norway on Saturday, March 23, are safe. Embassy Chargé ‘d Affaires Mariel Algabre said she was told that passengers have praised the efficiency and helpfulness of the ship’s Filipino crew in the evacuation of the Viking Sky, which encountered engine problems in bad weather. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, which is in […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, Sept. 25, confirmed seven of the 12 crew members who were abducted from a ship off the coast of Nigeria were Filipinos. In a statement, the DFA said it was taking the necessary steps to ensure the safe release” of the Filipino crew members of the MV Glarus who were taken as the Swiss-owned vessel was making its way from Lagos to Port Harcourt. The vessel had 19 […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Families of six Malaysia Airlines crew members who were killed when flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine nearly two years ago filed a lawsuit Thursday blaming the carrier for the tragedy. The suit accuses the airline of negligence and breach of contract and is believed to be the first filed against the company over the 2014 disaster, said Balan Nair, a lawyer representing families of the six Malaysian crew […]
