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Marsa residents and activists say plans to relocate an oil tank cleaning operation to the inner harbour town should be called off immediately, with no studies and or consultation preceding the delicate decision.  Last month, Infrastructure Minister Ian Borg announced the transfer from Fort Ricasoli to the Mediterranean Offshore Bunkering Company site in Marsa, after years of complaints by Kalkara residents over emissions from the facility.  Borg said that Ricasoli Port Facility Ltd would take over the operations and workers of the MOBC. The facility is used to clean the tanks of oil tankers...

In what was one of the stealthiest manoeuvres orchestrated by this government, with the active participation of the private sector, the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects, Ian Borg proposed motion 515 on the transfer of an area of land in Marsa to Ricasoli Port Facility, owned by the Marsa-based Falzon Group. Dated April 20, 2021, this motion also entails Ricasoli Port Facility’s taking over of the Mediterranean Offshore Bunkering Company Ltd’s personnel and operations, a very sweet privatisation deal for Falzon, which can now count on the strategic advantage of h...