The last decade has seen a doubling of stowaway incidents, according to India's Economic Times. The UK P&I Club reports that during 1998-2007, South Africa topped the list of countries in which UK Club stowaway cases arose with 190.
Trickle traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, hugging the Iranian coastline at Qeshm and the islands of Hormuz and Larak, has brought no significant change to the closed-off waterway.Source: Research Gate