The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and United States Coast Guard (USCG) will hold a joint search and rescue exercise (SAREX) this week to enhance the interoperability of the forces from the two allied countries. United States Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) Midgett (WMSL-757) arrives in Manila on Aug. 30,...
All the passengers and crew members aboard the roll-on/roll off passenger ship that caught fire off an anchorage area in Batangas have been accounted for, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) declared on Saturday, August 27. (Courtesy of Philippine Coast Guard) As of 12:40 p.m., the PCG said all 85...
Search and rescue (SAR) personnel were working round-the-clock to find two passengers who remained unaccounted for after a roll-on/roll-off passenger ship caught fire off an anchorage area in Batangas on Friday afternoon, August 26. (Courtesy of Philippine Coast Guard) Joint teams from the...
A roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) passenger vessel carrying 82 crew members and passengers caught fire off an anchorage area in Batangas on Friday afternoon, August 26. (Courtesy of Philippine Coast Guard) (Courtesy of Philippine Coast Guard) Commodore Armand Balilo, spokesperson of the Philippine Coast...
Various maintenance and repair group (MRG) tools and tactical items were donated to the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) by the United States’ Department of State through its Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) on Monday, August 22. US Ambassador to the Philippines...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) deployed three of its service buses to ferry students to their schools for free on the first day of face-to-face classes on Monday, August 22. The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) offers free bus rides to students, workers, and other ordinary passengers on the opening...
As face to face classes return on Monday, August 22, two Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) officers committed to help in teaching students on the remote Pagasa Island in Kalayaan Island Group, Palawan in West Philippine Sea. Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Ensign Jev Latic (Photo by PCG) Philippine Coast...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) should ensure that maritime transportation should be safe and convenient for all Filipinos in adherence to the mandate handed down by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to the Department of Transportation (DOTr). (Photo by Philippine Coast Guard) This was the directive...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) was placed on a “heightened alert” status ahead of the opening of classes for School Year 2022 to 2023, it said on Tuesday, August 16. (Photo by Philippine Coast Guard) Admiral Artemio Abu, PCG Commandant, ordered all Coast Guard districts, stations, and...
An injured crew member of a vehicles carrier sailing off Sta. Ana, Cagayan was rescued just in time by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Sunday, August 14. (Photo by Philippine Coast Guard) Aaron Paul Miral, 29, a seaman, was the subject of a medical evacuation (medevac) by members of the PCG...
A Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) working dog named “James” helped anti-narcotics operatives in detecting crystal meth or “shabu” worth P6.8 million in a buy-bust operation in Bonggao, Tawi-Tawi on Tuesday, August 9. Joint operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA),...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) revealed that it has found out the cause of the grounding of roll-on/roll-off vessel MV Filipinas Cebu in Iloilo on Tuesday, August 9, where 261 passengers and crew members were stranded. (Screenshot courtesy of Philippine Coast Guard) In a statement Wednesday,...
