Free Training Boosts Skills for Over 10,000 Filipino Seafarers
More than 10,000 seafarers have trained free of charge at the Philippines’ National Maritime Polytechnic in Tacloban City, Leyte, since course fees were waived in August. The agency expects 15,000 by year-end, as private STCW courses can cost officers around PHP 30,000 each, and plans new regional centres in Cavite and Davao.


