SUBIC BAY, Philippines – Container ship MV Bavaria has already docked at Subic Bay International Terminal port on Thursday (May 30).
The ship will be the carrying vessel of all 69 containers of trash set to return to Canada.
According to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, the movement of the trash shipments will begin by 12 midnight on Friday (May 31).
The expenses for the return of the trash will be shouldered by the Canadian government estimated at P10 million.
The Canadian trash, composed of toxic wastes, plastic bags, newspaper, and diapers among others, were dumped in the country in batches between 2013 to 2014.
The loads of the other twenty-six (26) containers were already buried in a landfill in Tarlac.
“Finally, (a) proud moment,” said Subic Bay Freeport Zone Administrator Atty. Wilma Eisma in a sigh of relief that finally, the Philippines’ trash row with Canada will be over.
Eisma assured they will be transparent in loading the trash shipment despite earlier advise that members of the media will be barred from taking videos of the containers while being loaded on MV Bavaria.
“The process is very transparent. The documentation for the teams will be very transparent…20 tons per container,” he noted.
Canada was forced to take back the trash shipment after President Rodrigo Duterte in April threatened to “go to war” with the North American country over the issue. — (with reports from Mai Bermudez)
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