News / Pressure grows from migrant crisis in the Med with commercial ships rescuing 14,000 last year

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Shipping lines are coming under increased pressure from the refugee and migrant crisis in the Mediterranean since the EU replaced Italy’s Mare Nostrum programme with border control body Frontex’s Operation Triton.

UK P&I Club claims executive Amanda Hastings described Operation Triton as “controversial”.

“Unlike Mare Nostrum [which Triton replaced in 2014], Triton does not focus on search and rescue missions, but focuses its efforts on ‘border management’,” she said.

“This means that government-led rescue efforts have been significantly reduced, and some have feared that this has ...