The Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) on Thursday mentioned it has issued stop and desist orders in opposition to RDC Reield Marine Services, the corporate that owns the sunken MT Princess Empress.
MARINA Administrator Hernani Fabia mentioned that the company issued two stop and desist orders for the corporate’s Certificate of Public Convenience (CPC) and its remaining three vessels, of which two are tankers and one is a passenger vessel.
“One is for purposes ng cancellation of the franchise or the CPC, the other one is to cease and desist in the operations,” Fabia mentioned in an ambush interview following the assembly of the Oil Spill Inter-Agency Committee on the Department of Justice.
He mentioned the stop and desist order will stay efficient pending the results of the investigation into the oil spill.
The MT Princess Empress sank on February 28 off Najuan, Oriental Mindoro whereas carrying 900,000 liters of commercial gas, affecting nearly 100 thousand residents within the province.
“Newly constructed”
According to Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla, the tanker was so previous that it had already been scrapped, opposite to claims that it was a brand new vessel. He mentioned the MT Princess Empress was not constructed to be a tanker from the start.
Fabia, nevertheless, mentioned this was not true based mostly on their data.
“Ah, sa bago yan, it’s newly-constructed. Hindi new ha? Newly constructed,” he mentioned.
(This is just not new, it’s newly constructed. It’s not new. Newly-constructed.)
“Eh, kung bumili ka ano na yan, yung new ibig sabihin it’s being— ano na existing. Pero ito naman newly-constructed, new from scratch,” he later added.
(If you purchase it, new means it’s already current. But that is newly constructed, new from scratch.)
Fines
Meanwhile, in the course of the assembly, Environment Undersecretary Ignatius Rodriguez mentioned preliminary calculations present that an administrative advantageous amounting to P471,000 per day from March 1 till the oil spill is resolved could also be imposed on RDC.
He mentioned it’s because eight out of 10 samples examined by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources confirmed contamination.
Rodriguez mentioned they’re nonetheless gathering extra samples.
The assembly was attended by Remulla, Justice Undersecretary and Committee head Raul Vasquez, Defense Secretary Carlito Galvez, MARINA administrator Fabia, Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista, Coast Guard Admiral Artemio Abu, Relly Garcia of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, and others. —VAL, GMA Integrated News
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