THE seafaring sector has asked the government to allow additional humanitarian flights to ferry in and out of the country an estimated 100,000 seafarers who are either stranded abroad or waiting for flights to board their ships.
In a letter to President Rodrigo Duterte, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), Associated Philippine Seafarers Union (APSU), Associated Marine fficers’ and eamen’s Union of the Philippines (Amosup) and Qatar Airways expressed their support for the seafaring industry and offered additional daily humanitarian flights to the airports in Cebu, Clark and Manila.
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