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Authorities in the Philippines are exerting efforts to find and secure a sunken tanker loaded with 800,000 litres of industrial fuel oil that has started to leak into waters.

The Vietnam Coast Guard (VCG) High Command held bilateral meetings with the Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Centre (THAI-MECC) and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) in Hanoi on December 8, as part of the first 2022 exchange programme “Vietnam coast guards and friends”.

More than 400 people in a coastal village of central Philippines were evacuated after about 250,000 litres of bunker fuel spilled from a power-generating barge into the sea.

The Philippine Coast Guard said August 3 that at least seven people died while 13 others were missing after two ferry boats sank earlier the same day in the central Philippines.

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on May 7 announced a plan to buy more weapons this year, including pistols, machine guns and water vehicles, to beef up its fighting capability at sea.

The Philippines commissioned into service two more Japan-made patrol ships on March 28, bringing to eight the number of vessels added to its coast guard fleet.