Virtu Ferries Ltd is claiming almost €800,000 from the US government and its embassy in Malta over the evacuation of personnel at the height of the Libyan crisis in 2011.

The claim is not for the actual trip, which has already been paid for, but for the time spent waiting to load the passengers.

In a suit filed in the First Hall of the Civil Court, the company claimed that the catamaran chartered by the US Embassy to operate the trip – the MV Maria Dolores – exceeded the time agreed in advance for the dis/embarkation of passengers by 46 hours.

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