Application of technology may be a come-on; still, employment opportunities for shipyard workers are hardly known or advertised. For a country that professes to be a maritime nation, one expects to see a robust and flourishing shipbuilding sector. Thus, issues of unseaworthy ships pop up and the use of imported second-hand ships re-surface whenever maritime casualties occur. The issues and challenges confronting the shipbuilding sector are not new. One can sense from the challenge that ShAP throws to government and concerned stakeholders a feeling of exasperation, but the association is not giving up in convincing government to take the side of Filipino shipbuilders.

Source: Manila Times September 01, 2017 17:03 UTC