THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and the Integrated Seafarers of the Philippines (ISP) are calling on Filipino seafarers to become entrepreneurs so they can have another source of income to fall back on amid an alarming 25 percent drop in the deployment of mariners.

ISP president Capt. Gaudencio Morales pointed this out at the sidelines of the recent launch of the DoLE-National Reintegration Center for Overseas Filipino Workers (NRCO)-ISP Business Plan Competition (Harnessing Seafarer’s Capacities for Business Enterprises Development), which was established to encourage seafarers to go into business.

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