Stowaways

A stowaway or clandestine traveller is a person who secretly boards a vehicle, such as a ship, an aircraft, a train, cargo truck or bus.Sometimes, the purpose is to get from one place to another without paying for transportation. In other cases, the goal is to enter another country without first obtaining a travel visa or other permission. Stowaways differ from people smuggling in that the stowaway needs to avoid detection by the truck driver, ship crew, and others responsible for the safe and secure operation of the transportation service. Thousands of stowaways have traveled by sea or land over …

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CBD: Convention on Biological Diversity · 16 January 2024 English

Invites the Expert Group, time permitting and as appropriate, to provide advice on the wording of the list of binary questions, with the support of the Executive Secretary and in …

pathways of biological invasion (contaminants, stowaways or hitchhikers) by means of sea containers, taking


OEP: Office for Environmental Protection · 15 January 2024 English

Progress in improving the natural environment in England 2022/2023

contaminants of ornamental plants, ballast water and stowaways on fishing equipment. Defra originally prioritised pathways with the additional ones being other stowaways, contaminants of aquaculture animals, ornamental


OEP: Office for Environmental Protection · 15 January 2024 English

Progress in improving the natural environment in England 2022/2023

contaminants of ornamental plants, ballast water and stowaways on fishing equipment. Defra originally prioritised pathways with the additional ones being other stowaways, contaminants of aquaculture animals, ornamental


CBD: Convention on Biological Diversity · 21 December 2023 English

Invites the Expert Group, time permitting and as appropriate, to provide advice on the wording of the list of binary questions, with the support of the Executive Secretary and in …

pathways of biological invasion (contaminants, stowaways or hitchhikers) by means of sea containers, taking


CBD: Convention on Biological Diversity · 14 December 2023 English

Invites the Expert Group, time permitting and as appropriate, to provide advice on the wording of the list of binary questions, with the support of the Executive Secretary and in …

pathways of biological invasion (contaminants, stowaways or hitchhikers) by means of sea containers, taking


Mixed Migration Centre · 27 November 2023 English

policy or position of the Danish Refugee Council or any of the donors supporting the development of this report or the work of The editors would like to thank the …

involves people who arrived at Italian ports as stowaways on the same ferries aboard which, after a spell


CBD: Convention on Biological Diversity · 17 November 2023 English

CBD/SBSTTA/REC/25/6

pathways of biological invasion (contaminants, stowaways or hitchhikers) by means of sea containers, taking


INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 11 November 2023

introduced by unintentional pathways such as stowaways, contaminants and corridors. Microorgan- isms likely that the importance of the pathways within stowaways has been underestimated in terrestrial arthropods surveillance for alien organisms transported as stowaways on ships travelling to South Africa. PLoS ONE


INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 29 October 2023 French

and on live plants and fruits, in wood, and as stowaways in shipments and baggage. Deliberate introductions


INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 27 October 2023 French

153–166. Chandler P (2004) An Irish invasion. Stowaways 4: 14–15. Chandler P (Ed) 1 (1998) Checklists


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