Sentence examples for smuggling vessels from inspiring English sources

But that led to the next wave of smuggling vessels.

The EU has discussed targeting Libyan smuggling vessels, and arrests smugglers when they arrive in Italy.

But this would be hard: today's smuggling vessels are yesterday's fishing trawlers.

The boat is the latest of at least 38 smuggling vessels to be rescued in the southern Mediterranean since the start of the week.

Not only are smuggling vessels only identifiable as such for a few short hours, but the smugglers themselves barely have to board them.

So many smuggling vessels have landed on the shores of Santa Barbara County that Sheriff Brown appealed for federal help this year.

The latest leg for an unlikely smuggling vessel was complete.

In perhaps the most egregious episode yet of a deadly year on the Mediterranean, a fishing boat packed with hundreds of migrants had been rammed by another smuggling vessel when those on board refused to get on a smaller boat.

They say the monassek is paid by Abu Hamada – about £220 a passenger – to shepherd the migrants from the apartments to the large smuggling vessel that lies several miles off shore, and to deal with any government officials who might cause problems.

Photographs recently released by the Australian government show that light anti-armor weapons seized from a smuggling vessel near Yemen's coast appear to have been manufactured in Iran, further suggesting that Tehran has had a hand in a high-seas gunrunning operation to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

The boys, Nasir and Riajul, both 17, were among 28 survivors from a smuggling vessel that sank in the Mediterranean Sea late Saturday after sailing from Libya.