Tag: migrants

According to Reuters, French authorities announced on 15th September, that eight people had died while attempting to cross the Channel from France to England, confirming earlier media reports.

According to news, Royal Caribbean International’s Odyssey of the Seas, a Quantum-Ultra class cruise ship, came to the aid of 77 migrants stranded on an overloaded sailboat in the Ionian Sea.

The number of irregular border crossings at the EU’s external border in 2023 reached approximately 380.000, driven by a rise in arrivals via the Mediterranean region, with many cargo vessels called to the rescue. 

Spanish NGO Open Arms has been fined a 20-day administrative blockade and fine of up to €10,000 for carrying three back-to-back rescues in the Mediterranean Sea.

According to Spanish authorities, nine migrants have been arrested in the Canary Islands after trying to force a Vroon platform supply vessel to head there and not Morocco.

Between Thursday, August 3 and Friday, August 4, 41 migrants are believed to have died in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea.

On 12th July, Italian authorities said that Italy has impounded migrant rescue ship, Ocean Viking, citing safety procedure irregularities.

Human Rights at Sea (HRAS) joins the calls of over 300 academics and thought-leaders for an investigation into the migrant shipwreck tragedy on 14 June 2023, off the coast of Pylos, Greece.

On June 14th, a fishing boat transporting refugees hundreds of and migrants and refugees sank off Greece, resulting in 78 people dead and many missing.

Earlier this month, a Teekay Tanker conducted two back-to-back migrant rescues in the Mediterranean, then transited to an Italian port.