WITH an articulate spokesman, Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific (MAAP) President VAdm Eduardo Ma R. Santos said the country's 87 maritime higher education institutions (MHEIs) would have a good opportunity to bring their issues and concerns to would-be lawmakers.

Santos took the cudgels for MHEIs when he presented their pressing problems during the first leg of the Vista Maritima: Elections and Beyond organized jointly by the Women in Maritime Philippines Association (WIMAPhil) and the Movement for Maritime Philippines (MMP).