SUBIC BAY FREEPORT-- Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) chairman Wilma Eisma said June 1, 2019, that the containers of garbage transported from Canada and stored in Subic Bay Freeport for several years were finally pulled out.

A total of 69 garbage-laden containers, 67 of them stored in Subic since 2013, and two brought in from Manila were loaded onto MV Bavaria, a Liberian-flagged container ship commissioned to ship the containers back to Canada.

The SBMA documented the whole procedure from docking of the ship at Subic’s New Container Terminal 1 in the afternoon of May 30, to the loading of all the 69 others at night and up to the departure of the vessel from Subic Bay early morning of the 31st.

“We thank President Rodrigo Duterte for his decisive action that brought about a satisfactory conclusion to this sordid chapter in our history,” said Eisma.

“This is one proud moment for all Filipinos,” she added.