Key Issues
Malaysian bulk carrier MBC sees strong performance in short term
Growth in tandem with global economic recovery.
Filipino seafarers lobbying for recognition
Seafarers are essential workers.
Philippine: Authority seeks new site for displaced shipyards
Creating opportunities for affected shipyard workers.
China, North Korea defies global sanctions on coal trade, again
China, North Korea are involved in illicit coal trade.
Smooth sailing for MISC into the next year
Increase in economic activities as world learns to live with Covid-19.
Corruption plagues Covid-19 health response in Philippine
Corruption put people’s lives at risk.
Korea is reimagining famous tourist destinations
A new way to travel.
What's important now.
Let’s focus.
South Korean antitrust watchdog up against shipping vested interest
Enforcing antitrust law against shipping companies.
South Korea: Uphill battle against corruption in shipping industry
Corruption drives up the cost of doing business.
While China’s intimidation of Taiwan continues, U.S. remains committed to Taiwanese self-defense
Since October
Australia, India, Japan, U.S. in phase II of MALABAR maritime exercise in Bay of Bengal
Maritime forces
U.S., Indonesia conclude crisis response exercise in Jakarta
Joint Exercise
We stand united against corruption.
U.S. delivers additional 5.57 million Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to Philippine
The U.S., in partnership with the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) facility, delivered an additional 5,575,050 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to the Philippines
The Problem.
Over 90 percent of the global trade is carried across ocean. However, the maritime industry is also prone to rampant corruption.