Project KATIG Revives Japan's Abandoned Boats for Philippine Islands
The project reframes Japan's difficult-to-dispose waste as humanitarian infrastructure, building a self-sustaining regional circulation model that links environmental cleanup, traditional shipwright skills, and international aid.
Reporting from 1 sources: ASCII.jp.
NPO Boat Bridge Asia launches Project KATIG, a crowdfunded initiative to collect, repair, and donate abandoned FRP boats from Japan to remote Philippine islands as life rescue and fishing support vessels. The first crowdfunding round on READYFOR begins June 17, 2026, with a target of 3 million yen for boat repair and transport.
NPO Boat Bridge Asia, based in Izumo City, Shimane Prefecture, is fully launching Project KATIG, which takes in abandoned fiberglass boats that are a serious environmental problem in Japan, repairs them, and donates them free of charge to remote islands in the Philippines that have lost boats to typhoons and other natural disasters. The boats serve as fishing support vessels in normal times and emergency commuting vessels during disasters.
The project uses the Izumo initiative as a model case and aims to expand Boat Bridge Asia bases to coastal areas across Japan, building a regional regeneration model linked to each area's primary industries, traditional shipwright skills, and marine culture. To fund the first step, a crowdfunding campaign on READYFOR with a target of 3 million yen opens June 17, 2026, and runs through early August.
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