The Philippines said Wednesday it began retrieving 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil from a sunken tanker off Manila Bay that for weeks has threatened to cause an environmental disaster. Philippines begins transfer of oil cargo from sunken tanker The Philippine coast guard said a private company is transferring the cargo, an operation the government earlier indicated could take …
MANILA - The Philippine Coast Guard on Wednesday said that Philippine divers have started siphoning industrial fuel oil from an oil tanker that sank off Bataan province, west of Manila, on July 25. The tanker, MTKR Terranova, carrying 1.4 million liters of IFO, sank before dawn on July 25 in the waters off Limay town in Bataan. Bataan Coast Guard …
