'Significant logistical challenges' as aid flows into Morocco and Libya
Relief efforts in earthquake-hit Morocco are an enormous logistical challenge given the remoteness of the ...
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Recent airstrikes on vessels and ports – part of ongoing clashes between rival governments – have resulted in Libya again being classed as a war-zone by shipping insurers, forcing operators already struggling in the face of a drastic drop in imports to Libya to suspend services.
“Insurance companies are putting an extra war-risk surcharge, which is quite high and hard to recover from the market,” Loris Trevisan, chief executive of Italian operator Med Cross Lines, told The Loadstar.
“Some cargo is still ...
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