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The Strategic Solution to man power problem

  NOVEMBER 2011

Despite the seeming proliferation of Filipino seafarers as suggested by a sizable crowd of officers and ratings that continue to loiter daily at the Luneta Park looking for jobs, recruitment of qualified seafarers remain tight, indicating the lingering manpower shortage for the global fleet.

     It is ironic that this situation continues even amid the prolonged economic crisis that resulted in the persistent depressed freight rates and significantly meager cargos for oceangoing vessels.

     Industry leaders have identified the strategic source of the shortage and warned that unless government and industry groups, both seafarers’ and employers’ alike get their acts together, there would be no easing up of the strong demand for marine officers in the foreseeable future.

     At the 1st Philippine Seafarer Congress, Mr. Ericson Marquez, President of Filipino Association for Mariners Employment (FAME), made an insightful presentation why in spite of the economic uncertainties that hover global shipping for a number of years now headaches over recruitment of officers persist.

     At the same time, Mr. Marquez, President and Chief Executive Officer of several reputable manning companies, laid out mid-term as well as long-term proposed solutions to the manpower problem covering not only marine officers but also people for the cruise industry.

     Mr. Marquez also holds key posts in a number of industry groups, among them the Philippine Association of Manning Agencies and Shipmanagers (PAMAS), the Philippine-Japan Manning Consultative Council (PJMCC) and the Joint Manning Group (JMG), the biggest group representing employers of Filipino seafarers.


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ASEAN-China Transport Meeting Focuses on Maritime Consultation

The 10th ASEAN-China senior transport officials meeting kicked off Wednesday, focusing on ASEAN-China maritime consultation mechanism, ASEAN-China air transport agreement, and joint ASEAN-China activities for 2012. 


A SNAPSHOT ON THE ECONOMIC AND SHIPPING ENVIRONMENT

The threat of eurozone contagion seems more serious as we move towards the end of 2011 following the Standard & Poor’s warnings for downgrading six triple A members of the eurozone. The economic and political uncertainties of the zone pushed the US rating agency to announce that is placing Germany, France, Netherlands, Austria, Finland and Luxemburg on “credit-watch negative”, meaning that there is a one-in-two chance of downgrading their top notch ratings, from triple A to AA+, within 90 days. The summit of European Union leaders at the end of the week will have a remedial impact on the debt crisis as the S&P move signals the need of France and Germany to follow decisive actions for the eurozone’s rescue. Potential downgrades of Germany and France would affect the European Financial Stability Facility, the bailout fund for struggling euro member countries that has funded rescue packages for Greece, Ireland and Portugal, pouring the single currency bloc in a speedy recession for 2012.

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WORLD’S PREMIERE MANNING 

EVENT RETURNS TO MANILA

The world’s premiere crewing conference, the 12th Asia Pacific Manning and Training Conference, will be returning to Manila , the manning capital of the world,  to tackle the latest  issues  shaping the maritime manpower business.


The conference will be held at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza on November 16 to 17, 2011 and will attract over 350 industry leaders and experts from more than 20 countries.  

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Security

People power vs piracy?

Twenty-five years ago, the world was glued to television sets as global media outlets covered in real-time the four-day people-backed mutiny that eventually ousted the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos and installed the country's first lady president in a largely bloodless uprising.

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