4 released PH seamen home soon
By Tarra Quismundo
Four Filipinos released after two years in the hands of Somali pirates are in good condition and will return home soon, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Thursday.
Four Filipinos released after two years in the hands of Somali pirates are in good condition and will return home soon, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Thursday.
A ship captain noticed that one of his officers often looked anxious and could not focus on his tasks. He would often stay alone in his cabin when off duty.
Settling a 12-year-old labor case, the Supreme Court has upheld the awarding of $60,000 (about P2.5 million) in disability benefits to a seaman who suffered various ailments while working in a chemical tanker.
Two Filipinos died while three others were missing after a cargo ship sank in the frigid North Sea off the Dutch coast, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Friday.
A homecoming celebration for a 44-year-old seaman took a tragic turn before dawn Friday when he mysteriously fell from the seventh floor of a Manila residential building to his death on the street below, police said.
A piracy watchdog said sailors and an oil tanker seized by pirates off Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta have been released.
The operator of an oil tanker hijacked off the coast of Nigeria last weekend has had no contact with the more than 20 crew since the capture, an official of the company said on Friday.
Fourteen Filipino seafarers were among those held by armed men who hijacked a Cyprus-flagged and Norwegian-managed tanker the other day in Lomé, Togo, in West Africa.
Somali pirates have released a German-owned cargo ship and its Filipino and Ukrainian crewmembers after holding them for 70 days, the shipping company said.
Every Filipino seaman is not only a navigator of a ship but also a navigator of the good future of his loved ones. But it is an alarming fact that many of our seafarers misdeclare their true marital status. Instead of “married,” most of them write “single” on their documents for voyage, according to Atty. [...]
