The International Maritime Organisation have launched statistics over stowaway incidents in 2014. In total, there were 61 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. IMO’s report can be found here.

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.

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