A P5-million reward was offered to anyone who could provide any information on the whereabouts of a Chinese passenger who went missing when dive yacht M/Y Dream Keeper sank off Tubbataha, Palawan earlier this week. (M/Y Dream Keeper / Courtesy of PCG) In a letter sent to the Manila Bulletin, a...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has retrieved the remains of the third fatality from the collision of Sierra Leone-flagged dredger MV Hong Hai 189 and Marshall Island-flagged oil tanker MT Petite Soeur off Corregidor Island near Bataan over the weekend. (Sierra Leone-flagged dredger MV...
It took 10 hours before firefighters finally put out the fire that razed MV Diamond Highway, a vehicle carrier, off Lapu Lapu City, Cebu on Friday, April 28. (Courtesy of PCG) The fire that started around 2 p.m. Friday was declared out by the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in Cebu at 12:35 a.m....
A Filipino and Chinese crew were killed as two foreign-flagged vessels collided in the water off Corregidor Island on Friday night, April 28. ( Two foreign-flagged vessels collided in the vicinity waters off Corregidor Island on April 28, 2023. Photo courtesy of PCG) The Philippine Coast Guard...
Eighty-five persons onboard a roll on/roll off vessel that ran aground off Lanao del Norte have been rescued by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), the agency said on Friday, April 21. (Photo by Philippine Coast Guard) The PCG said MV Filipinas Cebu was stranded after running aground at Maigo Point...
What was supposed to be a time for reflection turned out to be deadly for some as 78 cases of drowning in different parts of the country were monitored during the Holy Week last week, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said Wednesday, April 12. (File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The PCG said the...
A total of 77,078 passengers trooped to various sea ports nationwide on Good Friday, April 7, to catch last-minute trips back to their home provinces for the Holy Week break. The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said that 43,776 outbound passengers and 33,302 inbound passengers were monitored in all...
More than 106,000 passengers were monitored in various ports around the country on Holy Wednesday, April 5, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said. The PCG said it recorded 58,043 outbound passengers and 48,681 inbound passengers in all ports nationwide from 6 a.m. to 12 noon. Meanwhile, a total of...
Three more passengers of the fire-hit MV Lady Mary Joy 3, including a Philippine Army (PA) personnel, were finally found by search, rescue, and retrieval (SRR) teams a week after the deadly sea blaze off Basilan that has now killed 31 people, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported on Holy...
The oil spill emanating from the sunken motor tanker (MT) Princess Empress is feared to have reached Coron, Palawan, based on satellite imagery from a United States (US)-based science agency. In a press briefing Monday, April 3, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) announced that a possible oil slick...
After 63 days, the seven Chinese individuals who were “rescued” by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) from a distressed supply vessel that got lost in the vicinity waters off Suluan Island in Guiuan, Eastern Samar last Jan. 27 were finally allowed to go back to their home country. The PCG...
The Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) on Friday, March 31, ordered an investigation on all the vessels operated by Aleson Shipping Lines, Inc., the owner of MV Lady Mary Joy 3 which caught fire while transiting Basilan recently. The incident killed 29 people. Marina Administrator Hernani Fabia...
