May 25th, 20200The ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre has warned ship operators of potential attacks by the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Sabah area of Malaysia after receiving information from the Philippine Coast Guard. According to ReCAAP, a group of around five Abu Sayyaf Group members armed with assorted firearms is planning to conduct kidnapping...
May 11th, 20200The Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), the main airport in the Philippines, reopened today for inbound international chartered and commercial flights. All flights had been put on hold for eight days as quarantine facilities in the country had become too congested. There are around 40,000 Filipino seafarers waiting to get...
May 4th, 20206The crewing industry has been thrown another curve ball over the weekend with the Philippines, the nation that provides more seafarers than anywhere else, banning all commercial flights in and out of the country as quarantine sites have become congested. The Philippines accounts for just over one quarter of all crew onboard merchant...
April 2nd, 20200Manila port not for the first time is facing extraordinary congestion with container yard space now effectively full and ships being asked to divert to alternative destinations within the Southeast Asian archipelago. The port, which has a long history of congestion thanks to heavy road traffic across the sprawling Philippine capital,...
March 31st, 20204The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre has been alerted by Malaysian intelligence that an Abu Sayyaf kidnap for ransom group left Jolo Island in the far south of the Philippines, yesterday destined for Sabah, Malaysia. Security consultants Ambrey suggest the target area is understood to be around Felda Sahabat...
March 13th, 20200The world’s first onboard use of digital currency has occurred through the MarCoPay fintech platform, which is operated by Japan’s Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and the Philippine-owned Transnational Diversified Group (TDG). Using MarCoPay, onboard purchases of daily necessities have been done digitally on a number of vessels,...
December 11th, 20190The Philippines is the latest nation to admit IMO 2020 jitters. The Filipino Shipowners Association (FSA) has warned the domestic shipping sector may not be ready to comply with the global sulphur cap, which starts in exactly three weeks. The country joins the likes of India, Indonesia and Russia to have expressed sulphur cap concerns...
November 14th, 20190Philippines-based gas logistics company Atlantic Gulf & Pacific (AG&P) has made a strategic equity investment in Kanfer Shipping, a Norway-based developer of small-scale LNG sea transportation, maritime breakbulk solutions, floating storage facilities as well as LNG bunkering. Through the investment, AG&P will jointly...
November 5th, 20190Manila-headquartered International Container Terminal Services, Inc (ICTSI) has been handed $93.6m by a federal jury in the US over a long running case relating to a terminal it used to operate in Portland in the state of Oregon. The court case found the local chapter of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union had sabotaged...
September 27th, 20191Texas-headquartered Excelerate Energy has received approval from the Philippine Department of Energy (DOE) to proceed with a floating LNG import terminal in the Bay of Batangas. The project, named Luzon LNG, will supply LNG to gas-fired power plants in the region that provide electricity to Luzon, including Metro Manila. Daniel...
