THE threat to the job stability of Filipino seafarers goes beyond the "inappropriate" inclusion of education and training in the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers.

In a statement on Friday, January 12, the Philippine Association of Maritime Institutions (Pami) agreed that it is the lawmakers' lack of knowledge of the peculiarities of the local maritime industry that would finally pass a death warrant on the country's seafaring sector.

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