Category Archives: Maritime Personalities

A certain Fred R. Barnard, in a 1921 article for the advertising trade journal Printers’ Ink, coined the slogan “One look is worth a thousand words.” The following pictures of Philippine maritime personalities illustrate the adage. We took these photos with a fixed lens digital camera except the last one, which was captured on our [...]

One of our minor pastimes is hunting for quotations from individuals who figure in the maritime news. Generally speaking, politicians are more quotable than maritime personalities as they tend to be outgoing types with the gift of gab. But the maritime world can cough up some verbal gems of its own. The following are samples [...]

The question is not likely to be asked in any Social Weather Station or Pulse Asia survey but it’s food for thought. Which candidate in the Philippine general election on 10th May will do the maritime industry the most good? Those who have kept faith in the electoral system and plan to cast their ballot [...]

He may not be giving away billions to charity like Microsoft founder Bill Gates. But Philippine waterfront kingpin Enrique Razon Jr, the eighth richest man in the country, obviously has his own charitable side. He has put his International Container Terminal Services Inc on full CSR (corporate social responsibility) mode with the start of operations [...]

Sarah Breton, 45, assumes command of the 1,200 passenger-capacity Artemis. She is P&O Cruises’ first female ship master in 173 years (P&O photo)

Retiring UK War Risks Club Chairman Bob Crawford (left) receives a silver quaich from Thomas Miller Chairman Hugo Wynn-Williams. His was a long, fruitful career.

Two seafarers’ groups are gunning for party list seats in the Philippine Congress in the 10th May general elections – AKSI (acronym, in English, for Federation of Seamen) and ALON (Agenda of Seafarers for the Nation). For reasons that remain unclear, the Commission of Elections has withdrawn the accreditation of the United Filipino Seafarers (UFS), [...]

Ronald Raymond Lacson Sebastian, the new CEO of John B Lacson Foundation Maritime University (JBLFMU), has pledged to make the school ‘among the top maritime universities in the world.’ He would strive hard so that ‘every Lacsonian graduate shall have a better life as a result of a good occupation made possible by a good [...]

Several years ago, he purchased a five-hectare estate in Cavite province south of Manila to build a new village for cured lepers – an undertaking for which the Department of Health extended nary a centavo of support. He has also produced a full-length movie about the plight of Filipino Hansenites with name actors playing the [...]

It looks like we missed more happenings than we realised whilst we were on extended leave from blogging. We’ve just been informed that Captain Hans J Rosenfeldt, director of CF Sharp Crew Management, died of heart failure last 28th September. We met with Captain Hans on two occasions in the 1990s, the last time in [...]

It must be hard for Carla Salinas Limcaoco. As its vice-chairman and executive managing director, she is effectively in command of  Philippine Transmarine Carriers (PTC) and may be credited for much of its progress recently. Yet, Manila’s maritime community has fallen into the habit of referring to her as the daughter of manning bigwig Carlos Salinas, [...]

‘I am seventy.’ She says it as though it were a court verdict and a declaration of victory at the same time. Mrs Arcelo, who is arguably the Philippines’ most prominent maritime educator, celebrated her birthday on 28th May – the same day former New York City mayor Rudolph W Giuliani and African-American R&B/soul icon [...]