Tag: humanitarian corridor

• Friday, March 4th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Ukraine war: Humanitarian corridors agreed upon after 2nd round of talks

  

  Thursday's second round of talks between Russia and Ukraine in Belarus achieved very little regarding a possible ceasefire, but both parties have at least agreed to organize humanitarian corridors

• Tuesday, April 21st 2020 - 13:36 UTC

  “Greg Mortimer” crew members and medical chief officer demand repatriation: “we also have a home country”

  

  The last cruise of “Greg Mortimer” when it left Ushuaia on March 15th was an invitation to disaster, and now “we are asking for a humanitarian corridor to take us, as they did with passengers, to our home countries”, said Mauricio Usme, chief medical officer on board the Aurora Expeditions vessel.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 17:13 UTC

  Greg Mortimer: Australian PM thanked Uruguay’s humanitarian action

  

  After the departure from Montevideo of the last medical flight with passengers of the stranded Antarctic cruise Greg Mortimer, the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, sent a letter to Uruguay’s President, Luis Lacalle Pou, acknowledging the action of his government for its collaboration with Australian citizens.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:59 UTC

  End of “Greg Mortimer” cruise ordeal: last fifteen passengers flying to US and UK

  

  The final leg of the humanitarian repatriation of passengers on board an Antarctic cruise, stranded in Uruguay and most of them testing positive for coronavirus, ended Wednesday afternoon when they boarded in Uruguay's Carrasco international airport a sanitary charter to Miami.

• Wednesday, April 15th 2020 - 10:55 UTC

  Second humanitarian corridor for Greg Mortimer's passengers will depart this Wednesday

  

  The Uruguayan government announced on Tuesday that it will evacuate the remaining passengers on the Antarctic cruise ship Greg Mortimer through a second humanitarian corridor. There will be about 15 passengers who have remained in the ship anchored in front of the port of Montevideo, where there are people with the COVID-19 disease.

• Wednesday, April 15th 2020 - 10:54 UTC

  Greg Mortimer: Climate delays evacuation of passengers from Australian cruise stranded in Montevideo

  

  The last passengers residing on an Australian ocean liner, anchored off Montevideo for more than two weeks with cases of COVID-19 on board, will be evacuated to the United States by a medical chartered flight, announced on Tuesday the American embassy in Uruguay.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 12:30 UTC

  Sanitary aircraft on Thursday will fly “Greg Mortimer” cruise Australians to Melbourne

  

  A charter flight is expected in Montevideo on Thursday, April 9 to pick up and fly home to Australia most of passengers and crew on the “Greg Mortimer”, the cruise vessel stranded off the coast of Uruguay for the last two weeks because 128 people on board have tested positive for Covid 19.