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Four members of the Task Force Sea Marshall will receive International Maritime Organization (IMO) Certificates of Commendation at IMO Headquarters on November 24, 2010. Ambassador Efthimios Mitropoulos, IMO Secretary-General, said Task Force Sea Marshal members PO2 Samuel B. Boniol PCG, PO3 Anifer S. Bucao PN, SN1 Oliver S. Cogo PN, and SPO3 Loreto F. Justo PNP will receive Certificates of Commendation.The commendation is in recognition of their actions in the evacuation and disembarkation of more than 900 passengers from the M/V Super Ferry 9 last year near the Zamboanga Peninsula.
Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo, Commandant of the Philippines Coast Guard, pioneered the activation of Task Force Sea Marshal (TFSM) in March 2004 which is the PCG's major contribution to the government's campaign against terrorism following the Superferry 14 bombing incident. TFSM deploys a composite team of Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police, and ship's security personel on board passenger vessels departing from various ports and act as security for the vessel while on high seas. The TFSM is composed of about 200 officers and personnel and is under the operational control of Commodore Luis Tuason, the Commander of Coast Guard District National Capital Region-Central Luzon.
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The Philippines Cost Guard (PCG) will develop procedures in retrieving fisherman and their motorbancas from sea during typhoons in view of President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino's Directive. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Wilfredo D. Tamayo has directed all Coast Guard District Commanders to take more proactive steps or measures in notifying or recalling fishermen before the onset of or during severe weather conditions.
Coast Guard Districts were directed to ensure that Stations and Detachments initiate aggresive public information dissemination in warning costal residents, and local fishermen before Low Pressure Area develops in to storm or typhoon. Admiral Tamayo also directed all Coast Guard stations and detachments to seek assistance from the PCG Auxiliaries, LGUs, Office of Civil Defense, Provincial disaster Coordinating Council, and media groups in the dissemination of information.
It will be recalled that the last April 2009, a Memorandum of Agreement was forged involving the MARINA, PCG, PNP Maritime Group (PNG-MG), Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP), and Liga ng mga Barangay (LNB) on the deputation of maritime enforcement functions. In 2004,Executive Order 305 devolved to City and Municipal Go-vernments the registration of fishing vessels three (3) gross tons and below. Said enforcement function was formerly performed by the PCG, as deputized by MARINA, prior to the said Executive Order.
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Delegates of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Diplomatic Conference visited the training ships from China, The Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation while docked at the Pier 13 of the Manila South Harbor last June 2010.
IMO Secretary-General Admiral Efthimios Mitropoulos met and congratulated the cadets of the training ships for thier choice to join the maritime profession and encourged them to stay in the service of shipping following their gradution. Joining the delegates in photo are PCG Commandant Adm. Wilfredo Tamayo, JBLMU chairman and president Dr. Mary Lou Lacson-Arcelo and Ronald Sebastian, JBLMU Alumni President Capt. Rolando Ramos and JBLMU Alumnus Capt. Rolando Ramos of Vega Crew Management, Inc.