Corfu ship sends distress call after armed men on board.....

Psychobilly freakout · Dec 30, 2014

Greece is sending a navy frigate and a helicopter to locate a cargo ship believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants in the northern Ionian Sea after authorities received a distress call from someone on board the ship, authorities said.
The ship, the Moldovan-flagged Blue Sky M, was sailing in poor weather near the tiny island of Othonoi, northwest of Corfu. Authorities said the distress call had come from one of the passengers on board the ship.
The ship is believed to be carrying about 600 migrants....

seems a bit odd a cargo ship carrying migrants ? Or is that the norm ?

BensGrandad · Dec 30, 2014

Psychobilly freakout said:
seems a bit odd a cargo ship carrying migrants ? Or is that the norm ?

Probably more profitable.

edna krabappel · Dec 30, 2014

Psychobilly freakout said:
Greece is sending a navy frigate and a helicopter to locate a cargo ship believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants in the northern Ionian Sea after authorities received a distress call from someone on board the ship, authorities said.
The ship, the Moldovan-flagged Blue Sky M, was sailing in poor weather near the tiny island of Othonoi, northwest of Corfu. Authorities said the distress call had come from one of the passengers on board the ship.
The ship is believed to be carrying about 600 migrants....

seems a bit odd a cargo ship carrying migrants ? Or is that the norm ?

Happens all the time, surely you've heard of these? It's highly unlikely to be a legal cargo, I think it's fair to say. Just hundreds of desperate humans from Africa, or the Middle East, who've paid a bunch of gangsters their entire life savings to try and smuggle them into Europe.

The Spanish · Dec 30, 2014

merchant ships are picking up migrants in the med constantly. They have to answer distress calls. This is the biggest scam going and every bleeding heart thinks it's because they are just unseaworthy and desperate. This is well organised and cynical.

The Spanish · Dec 30, 2014

BensGrandad said:
Probably more profitable.

Far from it this is costing ship operators, owners, managers and charterers fortunes but because of ethics no one will stop picking them up even when they know it's a scam. You could not be more wrong, or do a bigger disservice to people on these ships sucked into this cynical scam, if you tried.

All this political grandstanding from various countries about stopping their navies or coastguard involvement in picking up migrants is total bs, their involvement is limited.

Psychobilly freakout · Dec 30, 2014

edna krabappel said:
Happens all the time, surely you've heard of these? It's highly unlikely to be a legal cargo, I think it's fair to say. Just hundreds of desperate humans from Africa, or the Middle East, who've paid a bunch of gangsters their entire life savings to try and smuggle them into Europe.

I have heard of the poor souls on hardly sea worthy boats, but was unaware they get on board cargo ships, I mean 600 is a heck of an amount to hide getting onto a boat. Then again pay the right people to look the other way and anything is possible.

edna krabappel · Dec 30, 2014

Psychobilly freakout said:
I have heard of the poor souls on hardly sea worthy boats, but was unaware they get on board cargo ships, I mean 600 is a heck of an amount to hide getting onto a boat. Then again pay the right people to look the other way and anything is possible.

Easy enough if you put them in shipping containers to start off with, I guess.

The Spanish · Dec 30, 2014

Psychobilly freakout said:
I have heard of the poor souls on hardly sea worthy boats, but was unaware they get on board cargo ships, I mean 600 is a heck of an amount to hide getting onto a boat. Then again pay the right people to look the other way and anything is possible.

They send out distresss signals as soon as possible, there is no intention for the original craft to get anywhere near shore, only the nearest poor dupe of a merchant vessel.

Lord Bracknell · Dec 30, 2014

Considering that Moldova is a landlocked country, it's probably worth asking why it provides flags of convenience to dodgy people smugglers.

Mackenzie · Dec 30, 2014

Do you work in shipping [MENTION=12211]The Spanish[/MENTION]?

vegster · Dec 30, 2014

Psychobilly freakout said:
seems a bit odd a cargo ship carrying migrants ? Or is that the norm ?

They are normally better than the local ferries.

Publius Ovidius · Dec 30, 2014

Looks like the slave trade is back.

Lord Bracknell · Dec 30, 2014

The Italian authorities are now reporting that the ship that caught fire yesterday near Corfu was carrying hidden refugees from Syria.

carlzeiss · Dec 31, 2014

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ious-migrant-ghost-ship-arrives-in-Italy.html

Norman Baker suck my lozenge · Dec 31, 2014

We'll have em,more the merrier.

TomandJerry · Jan 2, 2015

Merchant ship with 450 migrants and no crew heading towards Italian coast

Oh look, another ship full of migrants, welcome to the year 2015!

hitony · Jan 2, 2015

granny weatherwax said:
Looks like the slave trade is back.

Sadly, I don't think it's ever left.

Deleted member 22389 · Jan 2, 2015

I always said this would be the next thing they would do. It's worked once and now they will keep doing it.
Feed these people, but that should be the end of it. After this they need to send these ships back because the EU cannot accept the whole world coming over.

sydney · Jan 2, 2015

edna krabappel said:
Happens all the time, surely you've heard of these? It's highly unlikely to be a legal cargo, I think it's fair to say. Just hundreds of desperate humans from Africa, or the Middle East, who've paid a bunch of gangsters their entire life savings to try and smuggle them into Europe.

exactly.....the money paid , no doubt , finds itself , eventually being used to purchase guns or other weapons to perpetuate the cause of these illegal migrations.....which is why it needs stopping.

sydney · Jan 2, 2015

Norman Baker suck my lozenge said:
We'll have em,more the merrier.

oh yes please ...i simply adore middle eastern food....!!

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