Browsing by Name "Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA)"

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    • No fare adjustment for Boracay transport boat coop 

      Zabal, Boy Ryan (Panay News, March 9, 2022, on page 5)
      The boat fare for the Caticlan-Boracay route of Caticlan Boracay Transport Multi-purpose Cooperative (CBTMPC) will remain unchanged in these challenging times. Public transport numbers in Malay and Boracay Island plunged ...

    • No retreat in phaseout of wooden-hulled boats 

      Ayeng, Raffy (Daily Tribune, January 6, 2021, on page B16)
      The Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) is firm on the phaseout of wooden-hulled motorboats, despite the complaints of irate passengers of the Guimaras-Iloilo route that the available fiberglass types were not enough to ...

    • Oil spill mega-disaster 

      Vadis, Quo (Daily Tribune, March 24, 2023, on page A5)
      Two weeks ago in this space, we wrote about the Oriental Mindoro oil spill and now it appears that nothing has happened aside from reports of the oil spreading toward Batangas and Palawan. More and more people are being ...

    • PCG on the track of oil tanker in boat ramming 

      Gascon, Melvin (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 13, 2023, on page A6)
      While the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has yet to categorically say that it was a Marshall Islands-registered crude oil tanker that hit a Filipino fishing boat off Pangasinan early this month, it has started tracking its ...

    • 'PCG, Marina accountable for Or. Mindoro oil spill' 

      Ramos, Marlon (Panay News, March 20, 2023, on page 7-15)
      Senators on Friday said officials of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) should be held liable, along with the owners of the sunken MT Princess Empress for the oil spill that wreaked ...

    • PH elected head of IMO-ILO joint working group for world fishing effort 

      Ayeng, Raffy (The Manila Times, October 30, 2019, on page B8)
      The Philippines was elected as the chair of the fourth Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Labor Organization and International Maritime Organization's Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting on Illegal, ...

    • Phase-out starts: Marina stops registration of wooden hulled boats 

      Angelo, Francis Allan L. (DailyGuardian, August 31, 2019, on page 1-19)
      The Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) has stopped accepting registrations for new wooden-hulled passenger vessels that are the most common modes of transportation in the Philippines, particularly in island towns and ...

    • Plastic pollution reaching PHL waters equivalent to 14 Titanics 

      (DailyGuardian, January 30, 2022, on page 1-11)
      “Marine litter is one of the fastest-growing environmental problems in the world and threatens biodiversity, ecosystems and livelihoods. In the Grieg Group, we have committed ourselves to be part of the solutions in restoring ...

    • Say bye to Boracay's wooden-hulled boats 

      Zabal, Boy Ryan (Panay News, January 15, 2021, on page 15-14)
      Wooden-hulled passenger boats are no longer allowed to operate the Caticlan-Boracay Island route beginning Jan. 19. With its Certificate of Public Convenience (CPC) terminated or cancelled upon its expiration next week, ...

    • Senators set probe on Rizal boat tragedy 

      Felipe, Cecille; Macairan, Evelyn (The Philippine Star, July 31, 2023, on page 1-6)
      The Senate is preparing to investigate the deaths of 27 passengers who drowned on July 27 after their boat capsized in Laguna de Bay in Binangonan, Rizal at the tail end of Typhoon Egay. Egay battered Central and Northern ...

    • Ship captain seeks Marina's action on outrigger complaint 

      Itable, Edwin M. (The Manila Times, September 18, 2019, on page B11)
      A ship captain and a maritime advocate said he has forewarned the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) many years ago about the stability of outriggers that could have avoided sea accident, but his recommendation has fallen ...

    • Six rescued from troubled motorboat off Aklan waters 

      Philippine Coast Guard (PCG); PN (Panay News, May 25, 2019, on page 9)
      Six persons were rescued from a distressed fishing motorboat in the waters off Barangay Hibong, Nabas, Aklan. According to Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), the fishing banca “Denmar” carrying six passengers submerged while ...

    • Speaker assures fishers displaced by oil spill of P200m cash aid 

      Cruz, Maricel; Campos, Othel (Manila Standard, September 21, 2023, on page A1-A2)
      The House of Representatives will help secure P200 million in direct cash assistance for some 8,000 fishermen who lost all sources of livelihood as a result of the oil spill in Oriental Mindoro, Speaker Martin Romualdez ...

    • To fight sea pollution, Marina to hike inspection of CV ships 

      Padronia, Earl (SunStar Philippines, September 24, 2023, on page 2)
      The Philippines, regarded as among the world’s largest contributors of marine plastics, is moving to reverse this situation, with Cebu’s maritime industry players and authorities ramping up inspection and monitoring of ...

    • 'World's first ocean wave-powered boat' currently built in Aklan 

      ABS-CBN News (Panay News, March 5, 2020, on page B1-B6)
      Before the year ends, the world will be seeing its first ocean wave-powered boat, a hybrid trimaran currently being built in Aklan. During a media event earlier, Department of Science and Technology (DOST) secretary Fortunato ...

    • A year after Iloilo Strait tragedy, was justice ever rendered? 

      (Panay News, August 4, 2020, on page 7)
      The squall that capsized three boats in the Iloilo Strait between Iloilo City and Guimaras Island on Aug 3, 2019 did not only kill over 30 people. It also broke hearts and dashed dreams. Questions were raised. Were the ...