Africa answers for 81% of the total amount of cases
The Swedish P&I Club informs that according to latest IMO statistics, during 2014 61 stowaways incidents reported involving 120 stowaways.
Cape Town and Lagos were the most common ports of embankment. Africa answers for 81% of the total amount of cases and the most common type of known stowaway nationalities were Nigerian, Ghana and Tanzanian.
According to the Club’s statistics, the average cost for a stowaway case is USD 38,500 although the costs for one case can escalate to several hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on the legal and practical difficulties to repatriate the stowaway involving, inter alia, teams of security personnel.
Further information may be found byreading IMO’s report below:
Source: The Swedish P&I Club
