Senators probing the oil spill in Mindoro blast the Philippine Coast Guard for allowing MT Princess Empress to sail even without complete documents.
MANILA, Philippines – Oil tanker MT Princess Empress, which sank off the coast of Oriental Mindoro with 800,000 liters of industrial fuel oil on February 28, had no updated permit to operate, a Senate inquiry into the disaster unearthed on Tuesday, March 14.
During the hearing, RDC vice president Fritzie Tee said the RDC complied with requirements to amend its CPC as early as November 2022, but MARINA Administrator Hernani Fabia said the application is still pending. He said RDC has yet to submit additional documents it had asked from the shipowner. “If RDC has no amended CPC to include MT Princess Empress, it should not have been allowed to sail,” she said.
RDC’s Tee said MT Princess Empress, a new vessel, first sailed in December 2022, and even without an amended CPC, it was able to sail nine times prior to the sinking.Villar said RDC’s failure to complete the documents needed for it to travel makes it less likely to claim insurance.insured for $1 billion“I don’t want the people to rely on the $1 billion insurance if we cannot get that, and we should plan accordingly that we would not get that,” said committee chair Villar.
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