Ports of refuge urged in Aegean

摘要

The Greek opposition politician Miltiades Varvitsiotis criticised Greece's government in early February for delaying setting up a ports of refuge framework in the Aegean Sea.rnAddressing the Hellenic Parliament in Athens, Varvitsiotis said that 60,000 vessels traverse the Aegean each year, including oil tankers and other ships carrying toxic materials. He identified the sea region between the islands of Euboea, Andros and Kea - a busy shipping lane - as particularly dangerous during bad weather and in need of accessible ports of refuge.