Entertainment and fun has a long relationship with the seaman or seafarers. And when it comes to movies for sailors, some of them actually depicts what it likes to be part of merchant navy. It is indeed true, that movie inspires a large part of society, and may be this is the reason why people attracted to them. And […]
To what seems like a response to the advisory issued my International Maritime Organization, for easing restrictions on crew change and expediting the same, MARINA is planning to open more major ports. For the time being only Manila is opened for crew change. But Subic, Batangas and Davao are some of the major ports that […]
Shipping is the drive-engine of any economy. “If shipping stops 90% of the world will be frozen and rest would starve to death.” One can only try and understand the gigantic efforts that the seafarers put to facilitate world trade. The COVID 19 pandemic brings unprecedented effects. As the economies suffer, shipping too is now […]
