52 results for "Triton"
2016-05-26
The heads of Frontex, the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) and the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) and representative of the European Commission met in Warsaw on 25 May to discuss multipurpose maritime operations and co-operation in the area of maritime surveillance, information sharing and capacity building. Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri hosted Pascal Savouret, the Executive Director of EFCA and Markku Mylly, the Executive Director of EMSA at the 5th meeting of the ...
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2015-07-28
Rescued migrants aboard Siem Pilot A Frontex-deployed Norwegian vessel brought 785 migrants to the port of Palermo, Italy, on Saturday morning after three Italian coast guard vessels rescued them from a wooden boat and a rubber dinghy off the Libyan coast on Thursday. Siem Pilot, an 88-metre long offshore supply vessel is taking part in the Frontex-coordinated Operation Triton in the Central Mediterranean. Among the rescued migrants there were 133 women and 27 children. Members of the crew gave ...
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2015-07-09
Fabrice Leggeri and Bert Koenders On 8 July 2015, Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri welcomed the Netherlands Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders in the headquarters of the Agency in Warsaw. During the meeting, the two discussed the current migratory pressure at the external borders of the European Union. “The situation in Central Mediterranean, in Greece and in Hungary is particularly concerning,” said Fabrice Leggeri. “In line with the ‘hot spot’ approach - part of the Agenda ...
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2016-07-01
A German police helicopter taking part in Frontex-coordinated operation Triton contributed to the arrest of two suspected drug smugglers off the coast of Albania earlier this week. During a patrol over the Mediterranean, the German Super Puma helicopter sighted a dinghy with what appeared to be several large packages of drugs. When the people on the boat noticed they were being monitored from the air, they changed route and threw the packages overboard. The crew of the German helicopter ...
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2015-09-17
A member of the crew of the Norwegian vessel Siem Pilot who had gone missing early Monday morning was found on Wednesday night.Benjamin Olafsson, 23, had disappeared in Catania, Sicily, where Siem Pilot is docked. After he was found, Olafsson was reunited with family members who flew to Sicily. He will travel with them back to Norway in the coming days.“I am glad Benjamin is safe and sound. Benjamin and the rest of the Siem Pilot crew have done an outstanding job helping to save thousands of ...
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2015-02-12
Today the African migrants who survived the traumatic events off the coast of Libya told Frontex debriefing officers that smugglers who organised the operation forced them at gunpoint onto the inflatable rafts.The interviewed migrants were among the more than 400 people who boarded four dinghies on a beach near Tripoli on Saturday night and headed for Italy. The survivors told officials that the smugglers threatened to shoot on the spot anyone who refused to get into the four inflatable ...
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2015-09-28
Rescued migrants aboard Siem Pilot Frontex-deployed Norwegian vessel Siem Pilot helped rescue 487 of the 1200 people saved in the Central Mediterranean Sea over the weekend. 175 women and 15 children were among the migrants. The vessel will disembark in Reggio di Calabria tomorrow. Siem Pilot was involved in five different search and rescue operations over the last weekend. The vessel is deployed in Italy as part in the Frontex-coordinated Operation Triton. The migrants, most of them from ...
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2016-10-24
Over the weekend, two vessels deployed by Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, joined the Italian authorities and other vessels to jointly rescue some 5 900 migrants near the Libyan coast. Among the vessels deployed by Frontex was Norwegian Siem Pilot, which took aboard 1 099 persons rescued in several operations. This was the highest number of people ever carried by the Norwegian boat since it joined Frontex-coordinated Operation Triton in June 2015. The figure increased to 1 ...
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2015-01-03
At midnight the Icelandic coast guard vessel ICGV Týr, which is deployed in Frontex-coordinated joint operation Triton, brought the cargo vessel Ezadeen with 360 migrants on board to the southern Italian port of Corigliano Calabro. Although earlier estimates said there were 450 migrants on board the ship in fact carried 360 migrants. This completed a rescue operation coordinated by the Italian Guardia Costiera that lasted over 24 hours. The Syrian migrants on board Ezadeen, a 73-metre ...
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2016-04-27
Today, Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri, together with the EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos, Italian Minister of Interior Angelino Alfano, Central Director for Immigration and Border Police Giovanni Pinto inaugurated the opening of the new premises of the European Regional Task Force (EURTF) in Catania, Sicily. The ceremony also included Director General of Public Security, Head of National Police Alessandro Pansa, Mayor of Catania Enzo ...
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