1. INTERTANKO – LATIN AMERICAN PANEL (LAP) Miami Beach, FL, Oct. 22, 2005 INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZAT1ON 4 ALBERT EMBANKMENT LONDON SE1 7SR Telephone: 020 7587 3152 Fax: 020 7587 3210 Presentation based on report by: IMO

2. IMO REPORTS ON STOWAWAY INCIDENTS Annual statistics for the years 2003 and 2004 The Facilitation Committee, at its twenty-seventh session (6 to 10 September 1999), instructed the Secretariat to issue a statistical analysis of the reports received for each calendar year on an annual basis. This circular provides the requested analysis for the years 2003 and 2004. Attached, are the statistical tables prepared on the basis of 281 stowaway cases reported (183 in 2003 and 98 in 2004 – See 1st annex) to have occurred on the basis of the dates of embarkation or disembarkation, when provided, and involving 686 stowaways (476 in 2003 and 210 in 2004- see 2nd annex). The average ratio of stowaways per incident is three to one.

3. In preparing the circular, the Secretariat noted that the information collected was not sufficient to prepare the analysis in a detail manner.( For some of the items listed, the location of stowaways when found on board ships and the main categories of reasons why the disembarkation had not materialized..) From the information received and used for the analysis, it emerges that in most cases stowaways were found in cargo holds (107 cases), in car-decks (61 cases), in containers (49 cases), on deck (45 cases) and in lifeboats (13 cases). From the same information, it also emerges that ten stowaways died, eight were missing and two escaped.

6. STOWAWAY CASES REPORTED SHIPS INVOLVED IN STOWAWAY INCIDENTS ANNEX 1

8. ANNEX 2

12. TYPE OF SHIP 20032004 Number of cases Barge Carrier 21 Bulk carrier 196 Cement carrier 20 Chemical lanker 32 Container ship 5415 Ferry 80 Gas carrier 13 General cargo ship 5124 Oil Tanker 30 Ore/bulk/oil carrier 13 Refrigeraled cargo ship 66 Ro-ro-cargo ship 3138 Vehicle carrier 40 Total 1839B