The independent centre for crew rights has raised concerns about the implications for masters of the new Triton operation that it claims will have less money to spend on border operations than the Italian-led Mare Nostrum programme it is replacing.
This operation has been credited with saving more than 150,000 migrants in the Mediterranean.
The independent centre’s executive director Deirdre Fitzpatrick said the practice of merchant vessels helping people in distress was enshrined in the Safety of Life at Sea Convention (SOLAS) in 1914 after the Titanic sinking.
“This
