State-owned company faces $1.8 million garnishee order

State owned Mediterranean Offshore Bunkering faces an uncertain future as the company is facing a $1,801,516 garnishee order.

4 March 2012, 12:00am
by Julia Farrugia

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The MOBC offices in Marsa.

The employees of the government owned company Mediterranean Offshore Bunkering Co. Ltd, (MOBC), are facing an uncertain future as the company has been slapped with a $1,801,516 garnishee order.

Sunday newspaper Illum reports that MOBC is facing a garnishee order in relation to a decision taken by MEPA to issue an enforcement order to stop MOBC's operations after the company failed to install filters.

The government company has not installed the filters yet, and consequently Island Bunker Oils Limited - which was making use of the MOBC's facilities - filed court proceedings against MOBC because it could no longer operate.

Julia Farrugia is a former editor of Illum newspaper.