Twenty-seven days since its sinking off Limay, Bataan, the full-blown siphoning operation to remove the remainder of 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel oil (IFO) from tanker MTKR Terranova finally began on Wednesday, Aug. 21.
Officials from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and MTKR Terranova’s contracted salvor, Harbor Star Shipping Services Inc., are holding their breath as they try to avoid any miscalculation, for one wrong move could potentially cause the biggest oil spill in the country’s history.
READ MORE: https://mb.com.ph/2024/8/21/full-blown-extraction-of-cargo-oil-from-terranova-finally-begins
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