Compulsory courses will start from next week commencing 18/01/2009.  We confirm our compliance which has been implemented by our senior training officer in Manila in addition to our regular pre-deployment briefs. The Philippines government has introduced mandatory anti-piracy training for their seafarers. The training will include techniques to prevent pirates from boarding vessels, and how to manage a hostage situation.

About a third of the world's 1.5 million commercial seafarers are from the Philippines and nearly 500 Filipinos have been held hostage at some point off the coast of Somalia in the past three years.

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