Almost 7 kilometers from where it was due, in the harbor of Limay in the west of Manila, the ship sank. After experiencing bad conditions, it was attempting to return to dock.
The event occurred as Typhoon Gaemi and the annual rain, which had been causing heavy rains, slammed into Manila and the surrounding areas in recent days.
The rain had weakened by late Friday, according to the state weather service, giving the regulators a period of relative calm at sea to return the goods.
According to the coast guard, the separation would take at least seven times.
In the past, the Philippines has struggled to stop large crude overflows.
After a ship carrying 800, 000 litres of commercial gas fuel sank off the main island of Mindoro last year, it took months to get things fresh and ruined the island’s fishing and tourism industries.
In 2006, another ship sank down Guimaras, the capital of the island, spilling tens of thousands of gallons of oil, destroying a marine reserve, destroying local hunting grounds, and contaminating large areas of the beach with black sludge.