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By Alex Lennane
This good little article from the interesting Marine Cafe Blog highlights a problem that no one else is focusing on – the EU’s threat to Filipino seamen. The Commission has tasked the Philippines with improving its standards of training, certification and watchkeeping (STCW) deficiencies – but no one in the Asian maritime nation is taking it seriously. Perhaps they should talk to the Georgians, who lost EU recognition of their seafarer certificates in 2010…
