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Two Filipino crew members were among those killed in a missile attack by Yemen’s Huthi rebels on a ship in the Gulf of Aden, the Philippine government said Thursday. Those killed in the attack on Wednesday appear to be first deaths resulting from Huthi attacks on merchant vessels transiting the key Red Sea trade route. “With great sadness, the Department of Migrant Workers confirms the deaths of two Filipino seafarers in the most recent attack […]
(Eagle News) – Foreign cruise ships carrying Filipino crew are allowed to dock in Manila ports and will be used as quarantine facilities for its Filipino crew members, according to the Inter-agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases. This was contained in Resolution no. 24 by the IATF, Cabinet Secretary and IATF spokesperson Karlo Nograles said. He said that the foreign ships carrying Filipino crew members will only be allowed to dock in Manila […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said that it has conducted “medical evacuation” of an injured Filipino crew member of M/V Quantum of the Seas, one of the world’s largest cruise ships, which docked in Manila Bay on Sunday, March 8, due to an emergency in its boiler room. The Coast Guard however clarified that no passengers from the cruise ship disembarked. The declaration was made amid the rising COVID-19 cases in […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs on Sunday, Sept. 8, said it was ready to provide assistance to the Filipino crewmen of a tugboat allegedly seized by Iranian authorities in the Persian Gulf. The DFA said that based on a report from Ambassador to Iran Wilfredo Santos, Coast Guard authorities have said that an investigation is so far ongoing on the alleged oil smuggling of the crew on Sept. 7. Once this has been […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) — The Libyan navy said Monday it has seized an oil tanker near the maritime border with Tunisia and detained the 20-member Filipino crew on suspicion of fuel smuggling. Navy spokesman General Ayoub Kacem said the vessel was intercepted on Sunday off Abu Kamash, 170 kilometers (110 miles) west of Tripoli, and its crew transported to the capital to appear before the prosecutor general. The Liberian-flagged tanker belonging to a Greek company […]
The Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed that three Filipino crew were found dead due to the sinking of South Korean vessel in Bering Strait in Russia,
