Philippine authorities have elevated efforts to comprise an oil spill from a sunken gasoline tanker that has affected coastal cities and remains to be spreading, the surroundings ministry says.
Improvised spill booms constructed from cogon grass and coconut supplies have been serving to to limit oil leaking from MT Princess Empress, the Philippine-flagged tanker that encountered engine hassle in tough seas on February 28 earlier than it went down off central Oriental Mindoro province, the ministry mentioned in an announcement.
