Sweden’s migration board says it will not host migrants aboard a luxury cruise vessel owned by a US-based Swedish shipping magnate, claiming that he did not secure the necessary permits.
Authorities are facing an acute shortage of places for migrants after more than 163,000 arrived last year alone, forcing officials to lodge them in gyms, campsites and warehouses and even at unused nuclear fallout shelters.
Sweden had signed a deal with Floating Accommodations to lodge 1,800 migrants aboard the Ocean Gala, a floating hotel that was formerly a cruise ship called the MS Scandinavia.
“Our deal was dependent on the procurement of all of the necessary permits. This was not the case and the deal is therefore null and void,” said the official responsible for the project at Sweden’s migration board, Magnus Gustavsson, in a statement.
— AFP
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