Time and the maritime status quo

Only 66 days before Christmas and 73 days before another new year. It’s not so much the swiftness of Time that amazes us as how everything is constantly changing – people, situations and even places. Almost everything anyway. One thing that remains unchanged is the Philippines’ maritime industry. Today, 477 days after President Benigno Aquino III assumed office, what we predicted shortly after it became clear that Mr Aquino had won the 10th May 2010 election appears to be coming true: the maritime status quo will continue. (more…)

A bold, unabashed maritime forecast

The ancient Greeks consulted the Delphi Oracle. Modern-day Filipinos, at least the more superstitious ones, turn to fortune-tellers plying their trade near the Quiapo Church in downtown Manila. No need, however, for Delphi priestesses or Third World soothsayers to see where the Philippines’ maritime industry is headed in 2011. The signs are all over the place. Here’s our forecast based on what we had witnessed in 2010 and the years before that: (more…)

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