Bibby Stockholm

Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge

by Ian Kumekawa  · 6 May 2025  · 422pp  · 112,638 words

Bibby Kalmar—to accommodate a rising number of refugees fleeing war in the Balkans. Contracts from Dutch and British governments followed—including one for the Bibby Stockholm, which housed asylum seekers in southern England in 2023 and 2024. In 1992, there were around 19,700 asylum seekers in Hamburg alone; the next

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one or more of the Bibby Line’s barges in Essex, northeast of London, for the same purpose.[59] In 2023, another Bibby barge, the Bibby Stockholm, arrived in Portland for just this job, to widespread public outcry. HMP The Weare in Portland Port in 2008. As of 2024, another barge owned

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by the Bibby Line, the Bibby Stockholm, sits in the same location. In short, the reason that the Vessel had to go had nothing to do with the demand for beds in

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/7 security” and would be provided with a “security specialist.”[17] They turned to none other than the Bibby Line to provide the barge, the Bibby Stockholm. As in the past, the government stressed the costs of accommodating migrants on land—some £6 million per day—the temporary nature of the barge

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-nine asylum seekers on board were transferred to a local hotel on terra firma.[20] Just weeks later, they were back on board. But the Bibby Stockholm proved even more temporary than its predecessor. In July 2024, shortly after surging into power in a landslide election, Keir Starmer’s Labour government announced

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the Stockholm would close. A poster protesting the arrival of the Bibby Stockholm on a bus shelter in Portland * * * •  •  • The settings in which the Vessel existed were important, but the barge at the center of this story has

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No to the Barge,” shareable fact sheet, seen posted in Portland on July 8, 2023. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 19 Ione Welles and Joe Nimmo, “Bibby Stockholm Barge Migrants Moved After Legionella Bacteria Found,” BBC News, August 12, 2023. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 20 Hannah Appel, “Offshore Work: Oil, Modularity, and the

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, 80–85 shift in business of, 85–87 staffing ships, 72–73 transferring registration of Vessel and Sister Vessel, 95–99 Bibby Resolution. See Vessel Bibby Stockholm (ship), 113 Bibby Venture. See Sister Vessel Bibby, Derek, 52–55. See also Bibby Line Bight of Biafra, 198, 205 Bishop, Ray, 159 Blade Runner

Failed State: The Sunday Times Bestselling Investigation Into Why Britain Is Struggling

by Sam Freedman  · 10 Jul 2024  · 368pp  · 101,133 words

never happen in reality, or are distractions that make things worse by sucking up officials’ time. There were, in 2023, far more articles about the Bibby Stockholm – the barge used to house a small number of migrants – than any of the real reasons why the backlog of asylum seekers has grown so