SHIPPING industry stakeholders and Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) are rushing to finish the draft of the Omnibus Maritime Code and submit it to both chambers of Congress as time is running out as legislators would be busy for the May elections next year.
Marina Administrator Maria Elena Bautista said they want to submit the draft bill to the House of Representatives on Monday during President Arroyo’s State-of-the-Nation Address, or if not, it will be submitted in August.
“But even if some think that there is no more time [for the bills to become a law], I don’t think that will stop us. But it will be up to the [shipping] industries and government [agencies] to support this and pull some strings for this to move quicker than usual,” Bautista said during a workshop on Wednesday organized by the umbrella group Philippine Interisland Shipping Association.
Many of the stakeholders, however, have not yet given out their positions on many issues, such as on maritime insurance issues, as pointed out by the Philippine Insurers and Reinsurers Association.
Bautista now wants all those powers to be handed back to Marina to have a single agency that will handle all concerns from seafarers to shippers to ship owners, which may also include judicial and arbitration powers. THURSDAY, 23 JULY 2009 21:17 Business Mirror newspaper click this link to read the original article
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Marina Administrator Maria Elena Bautista said they want to submit the draft bill to the House of Representatives on Monday during President Arroyo’s State-of-the-Nation Address, or if not, it will be submitted in August.
“But even if some think that there is no more time [for the bills to become a law], I don’t think that will stop us. But it will be up to the [shipping] industries and government [agencies] to support this and pull some strings for this to move quicker than usual,” Bautista said during a workshop on Wednesday organized by the umbrella group Philippine Interisland Shipping Association.
Many of the stakeholders, however, have not yet given out their positions on many issues, such as on maritime insurance issues, as pointed out by the Philippine Insurers and Reinsurers Association.
Bautista now wants all those powers to be handed back to Marina to have a single agency that will handle all concerns from seafarers to shippers to ship owners, which may also include judicial and arbitration powers. THURSDAY, 23 JULY 2009 21:17 Business Mirror newspaper click this link to read the original article
http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/economy/13624-shipping-industry-rushing-to-finish-omnibus-maritime-bill.html
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