Safer and Greener Ship Breaking / Ship Recycling

Ship breaking has always been a major hazard to both the environment, and the people who works in such an age old industry. The environmental group Greenpeace even made this industry one of their high priority issues. Thankfully, the International Maritime Organization has already taken the initiative to discuss such in the first ever Ship Recycling Conference which was held last May 11-15 at Hong Kong.

The 5-day conference was expected to set the necessary international policies to regulate the ship recycling industry which is mainly based in South Asia due to the obvious benefit of a cheaper labor force. Hopefully the policies that will come-up from the meeting will then be devotedly enforced in the respective countries where the industry thrives. If not, then more workers will have to be sacrificed not to mention all the asbestos and other hazardous materials that get to be released to environment.

Cebu Diesel Supply believes that recycling and saving what’s left of our ONLY planet is everyone’s concern. This is why in addition to all our brand new marine engine and marine engine spare parts, we also supply used marine engines and used marine engine spare parts.

Sea Pirates Pushes The Philippines to Seek Assistance

The Philippines, like many other countries that participate in seafaring, has had enough of the sea pirates that seemed to be getting greedier and is asking transportation ministers in the Pacific Rim to give our Filipino seafarers equal treatment in terms of security in the said region.

Regardless of the fact that Philippines is under "Category E" in the priority level in terms of getting naval escorts around Somali waters, transportation secretary Leandro Mendoza asked the member countries of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) to address the growing threat of sea pirates because the vessels that are being run by the Filipino seafarers are owned and operated by many of business residing in member countries of APEC.

She also gave credit to neighboring China, Germany, and the US for their assistance in the Philippine Tanker M/T Stolt Strength and 23 of its crew after having been released by their sea pirate captors of Somali.

The country is said to service around 30% of the world's merchant sailors and it is no surprise that among the captives of Somali pirates are Filipinos.