INTERNATIONAL MARINERS MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN
The International Mariners Management Association of Japan (IMMAJ) is an organization of 95 companies (as of 01 June 2011) including crewing agencies, ship management companies and ship owners covering 2,193 vessels with 45,470 seafarers. IMMAJ was founded in 17 May 1984 and since then adopted policies to establish fair and effective crewing system as well as to assist in strengthening the international competitiveness of its members thereby contributing to the development of the Japanese manning industry.
The All Japan Seamen's Union (JSU) is a trade union that organizes maritime workers engaged in foreign and domestic trades, fisheries and waterfront. JSU also organizes and cover non-domiciled seafarers employed in Japanese-beneficially owned fleet. As of July 2007, the membership is approximately 26,000.
ASSOCIATED MARINE OFFICERS’ AND SEAMEN’S UNION OF THE PHILIPPINES
On November 11, 1960, Capt. Gregorio S. Oca, concerned with the plight of the licensed crew of the United President Lines, Magsaysay Lines, Inc. and the Eastern Shipping Lines, constituted the Associated Marine Officers’ Union of the Philippines (AMOUP), with the Philippine Transport General Workers Organization (PTGWO) as the mother organization. At the same time, Brother Donato Alarcon organized the unlicensed crew and formed the Associated Seamen’s Union of the Philippines (ASUP).
