Around 50,000 Filipino seafarers working in European vessels are reportedly at risk of losing their jobs since the European Maritime Safety Agency (Emsa) has given a final deadline this month for the country to address the concerns raised by Emsa. READ:
“The president has issued a directive recently [after] we tackled the Emsa audit report several times in the Cabinet [meetings],” Ople said in an interview this week.
Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople during the Committee on Migrant Workers public hearing on the discrimination against overseas Filipino workers Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022 The Philippines is a top source of certified seafarers in the world and these Filipino maritime workers send about P376 billion in remittances annually.“We’re almost back to the prepandemic level of deployment of seafarers since the cruise ships have returned,” according to Ople.
“With Ukraine gone, EU shipping companies went looking and there’s a preference for Filipino seafarers,” Ople said.According to the 2021 maritime transport report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development , the Philippines was the top provider of seafarers globally, followed by Indonesia, China, and India.
But during the same hearing, Marina said there was no imminent danger while the European Commission reviews the Philippines’ response and action plan to address the European Union’s concerns on the government’s implementation of the STCW Convention for seafarers. At the time, CHEd already said that 123, or 75 percent of the 157 maritime training programs in the country, had failed to meet quality standards since 2009.
In July 2019, Nelson Ramirez, president of the United Filipino Seafarers , said in an Inquirer report that the Philippine maritime industry was “dying.”
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