Senator Grace Poe said the Philippines still has time to overcome the shortcomings in the training and certification of Filipino seafarers.
“The mere fact that they have been accommodating and have not given us a definitive timeline, I know they appreciate the process we are undertaking at the moment,” Poe said during the plenary deliberations of the Senate on the budget of the Department of Transportation .
At present, the European Union has not disqualified Filipino seafarers from their shipping lines and the Philippines’ accreditation has not been revoked. “We are still accredited but we need to work on this because if not, the employment of 49,461 Filipino marine officers will be in jeopardy and the employment of almost 600,000 certificated Filipino seafarers, including officers, will also be affected,” Poe said.“We were not given a real timeline. What is important for the EU is that they see an effort to comply and it is an ongoing process,” she said.
From January to September this year, their remittances have amounted to $4.92 billion, a 1.8 percent increase over the $4.8 billion they sent home in the same period in 2021.
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