“The international community need to provide refugees and migrants with alternative means of finding safety without risking their lives by crossing the Mediterranean in unseaworthy boats.”
A problem defined by international shipowner associations but sadly not a solution in the way that a refugee evacuation on well found ferries to hospitable European shores could be.
(Shipping caught in the middle as Mediterranean crisis deepens)
“Why should we always have people killed, big fires, big catastrophes, big terrorist attacks, before we move forward on legislation — it’s something I’m sad about.”
Fotis
