For Filipino seafarers, their collective voyage in the last two years was inarguably the best years of their lives as seafarers — notwithstanding the global pandemic that triggered an unprecedented crew change crisis and other serious challenges to their employment. PHOTO BY DUNCAN TORRES
INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary-General Kitack Lim is inviting every seafarer to look back to "Your voyage — then and now, [and] share your journey," as a way of marking the International Day of the Seafarer on June 25, 2022.