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Philippine authorities are working double time to save the jobs of 49,000 Filipino seafarers aboard European ships and the $7 billion they send home each year. This, Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista said, comes on the heels of a European Commission’s impending action in April or May 2023 on whether or not to recognize anymore Philippine-issued Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW). Secretary Bautista said, ‘we may even have to move heaven and earth, if need be, to ensure these European standards are satisfactorily met”. Bautista hailed President Marcos’ creation of an inter-agency committee to take up the EC’s impending action through its European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). “It’s about time this decades-old issue is resolved and put to...