Maritime stakeholders, particularly manning agencies, lauded the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) for its continuing efforts to maintain the country’s reputation as the leading provider of maritime professionals and securing our spot in the International Maritime Organization’s”(IMO) White List”.

In an interview, RADM Adonis Donato, chairman of OSM Maritime Services Inc., one of the biggest agencies in the country and a leading provider of full service solutions to maritime and offshore enterprises, said that he was seeing “earnest” efforts done by Marina’s OIC-Administrator Narciso Vingzon Jr., to secure that the Philippines position in the current IMO White List.