A German shipowner has complained of a dire situation on board a boxship that cannot disembark migrants rescued in the Mediterranean.
Klingenberg Schiffahrts has called for help to resolve the impasse involving its 670-teu Marina (built 2003), which is currently off the Italian island of Lamepdusa with 79 desperate people, three of them women and all mainly from Bangladesh.
In an email passed to TradeWinds, vessel master Captain Postnikov told Maltese authorities on Wednesday morning: "At the moment we have huge fighting between rescued persons, almost all...
