ENG    CHN   The Age of the Professional Stowaway

P&I Associates (Pty) Ltd have recently published an article titled ‘The Age of the Professional Stowaway’, which takes a look at how stowaways affect the current market.

Over the last 15 years, we have witnessed a change in the market which has now seen the arrival of the age of the professional stowaway.”

Our concerns were raised at the International Group P&I conference in Amsterdam in 2009, and we advised the conference on the difficulties which ship owners faced in dealing with stowaways once on board ships, their removal from ships and the increased costs that were being incurred by both ship owners and P&I clubs in order to resolve stowaway cases.

See attached file: 
Stowaways – South Africa.pdf
The Age of the Professional Stowaway.pdf

偷渡客 – 南非

近日，P&I Associates (Pty) Ltd 发表题为“专业偷渡时代”的文章，探讨了偷渡客对当前市场的冲击。

在过去的十五年，市场一直在变化。现在，偷渡已经进入专业时代。

2009 年，在阿姆斯特丹召开的国际船东保赔协会集团会议上，我们对这种现象表示担忧。在会上，我们提出了船东在处理偷渡客登船以及遣送偷渡客离船面临的窘境，以及船东和保赔协会因处理偷渡案而承担高额费用的问题。

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