Philippines recovers oil from sunken tanker, avoids disaster


Philippine Coast Guard personnel recovered 96 per cent of the oil waste. - Handout/PCG

MANILA: The Philippine government said it had completed on Thursday (Sept 12) the recovery of fuel cargo from a sunken oil tanker on Manila Bay, avoiding an "environmental catastrophe".

The Philippine-flagged MT Terranova went down with 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil on July 25 in rough seas churned by Typhoon Gaemi, killing one crew member.

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