A giant barge will arrive in the UK this week to be refitted and prepared to accommodate 500 asylum seekers.
Government sources said it will be towed into an undisclosed port on the south coast of England, where Bibby Marine, the company that owns the vessel, will repurpose it in accordance with the Home Office’s requirements. It will then be towed to Portland Port, in Dorset, and migrants will start being moved in at the end of June.
The Home Office has leased the vessel, named the Bibby Stockholm, for 18 months. It is the first accommodation vessel contracted by the Home Office to house migrants.
The department is in talks to lease further vessels to accommodate asylum seekers, including a proposal to house
