Maersk Tankers has announced the safe disembarkation of 27 migrants from the Maersk Etienne tanker in the Mediterranean. The disembarkation comes 38 days after the Captain and crew of the Maersk Etienne heeded requests for assistance and came to the rescue of the migrants distress at sea. Since...
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Shipping Interests Call for Immediate Disembarkation of Migrants from Stranded Maersk Tanker
The International Chamber of Shipping is calling on the International Maritime Organization to urgently intervene in the case of Maersk Etienne, which is currently stranded at sea after coming to aid of migrants in distress off Malta last month. In a letter to the IMO Secretary-General, the ICS...
Three migrants rescued by Maersk Etienne jump overboard
Maersk Tankers reports that three migrants jumped overboard from its tanker Maersk Etienne yesterday. They were rescued and brought back onboard the ship where they are being given due care.
The incident underscores the growing despair among the group of 27 migrants, including one child and a pregnant woman, rescued by the tanker from the sea off Tunisia on August 4 at the request of Maltese authorities.
Since then, Maersk Tankers has been unable to find a country willing to take them and the Maer...
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Maersk Tanker Captain Calls for Help for Migrants Stuck at Sea
COPENHAGEN, Sept 4 (Reuters) – The captain of a tanker that rescued 27 migrants at sea, including a pregnant woman, is calling for immediate help as conditions worsen on board after a month anchored off the coast of Malta having been denied entry by several countries. The migrants have no critical...
Artist Banksy’s New Migrant Rescue Boat Quickly Becomes Overloaded in Mediterranean
By Gavin Jones ROME, Aug 29 (Reuters) – The Italian coastguard sent help on Saturday to a rescue boat funded by British street artist Banksy after the vessel issued urgent calls for assistance, saying it was stranded in the Mediterranean and overloaded with migrants. The coastguard said a patrol...
Fate Of English Channel Migrants Entwined In Brexit Talks
by Gabriela Baczynska (Reuters) – The European Union has so far rebuffed British calls for talks on a deal to allow London to send unwanted migrants back to Europe from 2021, and could use the issue as potential leverage in wider Brexit negotiations, diplomats and officials said. The agenda for...
Rome Lets Migrant Rescue Ship Into Italian Port
by Crispian Balmer (Reuters) – Italy’s new government allowed a French charity ship to bring ashore 82 migrants on Saturday in an apparent reversal of the uncompromising, closed-door policy of the previous administration. However, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, who heads the 5-Star Movement in the...
Captain of Migrant Rescue Vessel Refuses Paris’ Highest Civilian Award
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Spanish NGO Seeks Safe Port For 124 People Rescued in Mediterranean
by Sam Edwards (Reuters) A Spanish charity rescue boat sought safe port on Friday after Italy rejected its request to disembark 124 people saved from two migrant rafts in the Mediterranean, the organization said. Non-governmental organization (NGO) rescue boats have largely disappeared from the...
German Migrant Rescue Ship Captain Faces Italian Court
By Antonio Denti and Wladimiro Pantaleone AGRIGENTO, Italy, July 1 (Reuters) – The German captain of a charity rescue ship appeared before a court in Sicily on Monday after she was arrested for forcing her way into an Italian port carrying migrants she had rescued off the Libyan coast. The initial...