MANILA, Philippines – Filipino sailors working on foreign vessels have remitted a total of $3.4 billion in 2009, up by 12 percent from $3.043 billion in 2008, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said yesterday.
TUCP secretary-general and former senator Ernesto Herrera said Asia-based sailors sent home $507.801 million in 2009, up 55.07 percent from $327.458 million in 2008.
Europe-based seamen sent home $1.156 billion in 2009, up 78.82 percent from $646.406 the previous year.
Sailors based in the United States wired home $1.706 billion in 2009, down by 16 percent from $2.031 billion in 2008.
Citing figures from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Herrera said the aggregate remittances through banks by all land and sea-based overseas Filipino workers rose 5.61 percent to $17.348 billion in 2009 from $16.427 billion in 2008.
Of the $921-million increase in aggregate remittances, land-based OFWs contributed 60 percent, while sea-based OFWs contributed 40 percent. –Shiela Crisostomo (The Philippine Star)
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
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