Another 289 expats were evacuated from Libya to Malta yesterday on board a Virtu Ferries catamaran.

The ferry left the port of Zuwaytinah, south west of Benghazi at 8am yesterday and arrived at Valletta last night.

The trip was the second to be chartered by Daewoo Logistics Corporation and the evacuation was coordinated by Virtu Ferries and Daewoo.

All passengers were expected to proceed to Malta International Airport for their flights back home.

The passengers consisted of 34 Koreans, 44 Bangladeshis, 34 Thais and 177 Filipinos.

This is the fourth evacuation by Virtu Ferries from Libya. Besides the two for Daewoo, it organised one for Hyundai and another for the Indian government.

In the 2011 Libya crisis Virtu Ferries played the leading role in the evacuation campaign chartered by Médecins Sans Frontières, the Red Cross, the US State Department and the Maltese government.

A Virtu Ferries vessel was also chartered by the Australian government to evacuate passengers from Beirut to Cyprus in the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

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