The U.K has announced a plan to move migrants seeking asylum from current hotel accommodations to a barge, at least two military bases and ships in an effort to slash surging costs and end the hotel ...

United Kingdom’s rising number of migrants seeking protection and shelter in the country is becoming more costly for the government. To offset housing costs, the U.K. has transferred a small group of ...

FILE - A view of the Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge, which would have housed up to 500 asylum seekers, at Portland Port in Dorset, England, on July 21, 2023. The British government said Tuesday, ...

LONDON — A vessel that will house up to 500 asylum-seekers arrived Tuesday in England after Parliament passed its long-debated bill to curb migration. The barge Bibby Stockholm was pulled by a tug ...

An ailing crewmember was medevaced from a 400-foot accommodation barge Monday, approximately 140 nautical miles south of Ponce, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Watchstanders at Coast Guard ...

Tug Fairmount Sherpa has delivered accommodation barge Ayang 2 offshore Angola. The barge was towed from Romania to a location offshore Porto Amboim. The Ayang 2 is an accommodation and work barge ...

People board the Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge at Portland Port in Dorset, England, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. (James Manning/PA via AP) (CN) — An accommodation barge being used to house ...

Aug. 7 (UPI) --The first group of asylum seekers boarded a converted oil-field accommodation barge as the British government put a plan to cut costs incurred by housing them in hotel rooms into action ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — Britain’s plan to house asylum ...

An Australian travel firm previously slammed for its handling of Covid quarantine hotels has been quietly handed a £1.6bn contract covering the UK’s new asylum accommodation ships, The Independent can ...