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The Philippine Department of Transportation (DoTR) has ordered the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) to file charges against Aleson Shipping Lines, operator of MV Trisha Kerstin 3, and to look into the possibility of revoking its licenses.<\/p>\n
Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Aleson\u2019s fleet of 36 vessels was earlier ordered grounded a day after the mishap, causing a severe transportation crisis in the Basilan-Sulu-Tawi Tawi archipelago of Muslim Mindanao<\/a>. <\/p>\n DoTR pointed out the shipping company is deficient in safety procedures and allowed overloading of passengers in its old and ill-maintained boat. Survivors earlier complained that the boat was decrepit and it had no adequate life vests. They added that crewmembers were the first to board Trisha Kerstin 3\u2019s lifeboats instead of assisting passengers.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, acting DOTr Secretary (minister) Giovanni Lopez also announced the relief of six Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) personnel and eight Marina officials to allow an impartial investigation.<\/p>\n The officers were in charge of checking the passenger manifest and the boat\u2019s condition before leaving port.<\/p>\n Lopez emphasized that “maritime safety is not optional,\u201d and vowed a complete investigation.<\/p>\n MV Trisha Kerstin 3 capsized on the same route where Lady Mary Joy 3 ferry suffered a fire in 2023 that in turn killed 31 passengers. Aleson Shipping also owned Lady Mary Joy 3.<\/p>\n PCG technical divers continue their search and recovery of a yet undetermined number of victims.<\/p>\n An archipelagic country, the Philippines relies on maritime ferries that are often put back into service after growing old in Japan or Korea.<\/p>\n The worst maritime disaster happened in 1987 when passenger ferry MV Do\u00f1a Paz collided with oil tanker MT Vector off the coast of Manila killing more than 4,000 victims. <\/p>\n <\/a><\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … impose stiffer sanctions against the shipping<\/span> company that owned the … to file charges against Aleson Shipping<\/span> Lines, operator of MV … .\u00c2\u00a0 DoTR pointed out the shipping<\/span> company is deficient in safety … killed 31 passengers. Aleson Shipping<\/span> also owned Lady Mary Joy …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n
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