An Italian navy ship has arrived at the Albanian port of Shengjin with eight migrants who will be processed there after they were intercepted in international waters

An Italian navy ship set sail for Albania on Wednesday carrying a second small group of migrants, with Rome looking to salvage a controversial plan to process asylum seekers abroad after a first attempt hit legal hurdles.

The ship, expected to arrive at the port of Shengjin on Thursday morning, left Lampedusa with only eight asylum seekers after judges in Catania and Rome rejected the Meloni government's decree on 'safe countries' last Monday.

An Italian navy ship carrying a small group of migrants docked in an Albanian port on Friday in an attempt by Rome to salvage a plan to process asylum seekers abroad after a first attempt hit legal hurdles.