According to the unions, the February 2022 "Euroferry Olympia" maritime tragedy in the Adriatic (1 dead, 10 missing), has revealed that personnel cuts, insufficient infrastructure and poor sanitation standards according to official port control reports, with the state of cabins (also alleged in some social media posts), may have all contributed to truck drivers choosing, customarily, to remain in their vehicles during transit, something that should be prohibited. The Truck Drivers Union reminded the Ministry of Merchant Marine that they had informed them of the unsuitability of the particular ship since 2017, while a guest on Nikos Boyopoulos radio show on Real FM pointed out the appeal of this ship was the significantly cheaper tickets. The ship operators, Grimaldi Group, have refuted all allegations about the ships condition, stated that there were enough cabins, and insinuated that the missing truck drivers must have hidden inside their trucks so as to avoid checks from crew tasked with ensuring that no driver remains in the cargo hold. In recent years, with the purchase of Minoan Lines, the Group has come to dominate the busy Italy-Greece routes. 

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