Maritime agenda pushed

As the country is set to elect new national and local leaders, the maritime industry is actively organizing fora with the presidential candidates to convince them to include a maritime agenda in their platform of government. To achieve this objective, maritime industry stakeholders organized themselves into the “Movement for Maritime Philippines” (MMP).

The maritime industry embraces various maritime sectors, such as ship owning and operations, seafaring, shipbuilding and repairs, port management and operations, maritime education and training, among others, with most of them focused on working towards achieving their respective sectoral targets and objectives. Add to these diverse pursuits safety, security, efficiency, and environment protection from pollution from ships. The country being an archipelago, these logically evoke questions on how such wide-ranging concerns and interests could be balanced and at the same time optimize the contributions of the maritime industry to socio-economic development.