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MTSC Completes Third Quarter Exercise For Its Waterborne Industry Spill Equipment Contract
Members of the Petroleum Institute of the Philippines (PIP) held its third quarter and Waterborne Industry Equipment (WISE) Philippines exercise for 2019 at Philippine Coastal Storage & Pipeline Corp. terminal in Subic Bay. MTSC and PIP hold one exercise per quarter. Approximately 40 professionals attended including representatives from the PIP (Petron, Chevron Philippines, Pilipinas Shell, Total Philippines, PPT Philippines, and Isla LPG), local tanker operators/owners; oil terminal...
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MTSC Contracted By Nippon Salvage For Fire Fighting And Emergency Services To Fire Casualty In The Philippines
MTSC partnered with Nippon Salvage, to respond to the car carrier, MV Diamond Highway, that caught fire in June 2019 (location). MTSC dispatched MT VIGILANT (4,000BHP) and MT DEFIANCE (4,400BHP) to carry out emergency response services, including firefighting and emergency towage. Operations were carried out in close consultation with the relevant local authorities and the car carrier was safely delivered to Batangas Bay and then Subic Bay to undergo temporary repairs and discharge its...
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MTSC Servicing Clients In Manila North And South Harbor
MTSC started providing harbor docking and undocking to its clients in Manila North and South Harbor July 16, 2018. It stationed the MT Mangyan (2,400HP) and MT Sikatuna (2,600HP) to service clients' vessels calling Asian Terminal Incorporated and Manila International Container Terminal. "MTSC serves clients in Subic, Bataan, Batangas, Cagayan de Oro, and Davao. It was those same clients who expressed keen interest to support MTSC if it stationed its tugs in Manila to support their...
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MTSC's Joins Shell's "Shell Arat Ng Silangan Exercise 2018"
The Philippines was host to Shell's "Shell Arat Ng Silangan Exercise 2018" held on June 22nd and June 26th to 28th 2018. The two and half day table top exercise was designed to train members of Shell's Global Response Support Network (GRSN) with a particular focus on, but not limited to, members of the Asia Russia Australia (ARAT) region in addition to meeting Shell Tabangao's HSSE respone requirements and to continuously improve Shell's global readiness profile. The exercise simulated a...
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MTSC's MT Trabajador-1 Tows Rickmers Shipmanagement's Distressed Vessel, MV Isao
On June 18, 2018, Malayan Towage and Salvage Corporation (MTSC) was hired to dispatch its 8,200-break horsepower salvage vessel, MT Trabajador-1, to escort the distressed vessel, MV “Isao”, from its position near Morong, Bataan, Philippines to the port of Subic Bay, Philippines. The hirer; Hamburg-based Rickmers Shipmanagement, through its broker, U.K.-based Marint (Offshore Services) Ltd, promptly firmed up the hire of the MT Trabajador-1, and MTSC successfully and safely aided the vessel to...
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