However, the country has designated a port 1,200km away
Italy has authorized the humanitarian ship Geo Barents, managed by the NGO Doctors Without Borders, to dock at the port of La Spezia, in the north-west of the country, with 336 migrants on board.
The internationally displaced people were rescued by two clandestine boats off the Libyan coast in the central Mediterranean Sea between Monday night (1) and Tuesday morning (2).
According to MSF, it will take three days of navigation to reach La Spezia, 1,200 km away, which is part of the strategy of Giorgia Meloni’s government to designate distant ports to reduce the time spent by humanitarian ships in the most critical areas.
“This will only increase the unnecessary suffering for these people, who would have the right to disembark as soon as possible at the nearest port,” said Fulvia Conte, Geo Barents relief coordinator.
Also this Tuesday the Ocean Viking ship, of the NGO SOS Méditerranée, docked in Civitavecchia with 168 migrants and refugees from Syria and Egypt, after 940 kilometers of navigation.
“The designation of a distant port places an additional burden on the already fragile conditions of the shipwrecked and depletes the Mediterranean of relief resources,” it said.
According to Italy’s interior ministry, the country has already received 40,900 international displaced people across the Mediterranean in 2023, almost four times more than in the same period last year.
Source: Terra
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