PHL execs raise seafarers' concerns with new IMO chief

Philippine officials have raised with the new head of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Koji Sekimizu, concerns about the piracy attacks against seafarers.A news release of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Philippine permanent representative to the IMO Enrique Manalo discussed the matter with Sekimizu in London on January 5. "Ambassador Manalo was the first Permanent Representative to be received by Secretary General Sekimizu after the

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