Illegal Drugs & Smuggling
The transport of illegal drugs through European ports and the measures taken by port authorities, national governments and international organisations to counter the efforts of smugglers. This includes news about the European Union and Europol, and illegal drug discoveries in docked ships and ports.
148 kg of cocaine seized in Italy’s Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 13, 2024 – 148 kg of cocaine were seized in Italy’s Mediterranean port of Livorno and three Albanian citizens who...
436 kg heroin seized in Bulgaria’s Burgas port
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) August 13, 2024 – 436 kg of heroin were seized at Bulgaria’s Black Sea port of Burgas on August 9, the district...
Authorities seizes 1,700 kilos of cocaine in Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 12, 2024 – On July 30, the Civil Guard has seized 1,700 kilos of cocaine among sacks of sugar in the Port of...
Cocaine valued at €23 million seized in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) August 12, 2024 – The Guardia Civil and the Customs Surveillance Service of the Spanish Tax Agency have...
Port managers in drugs trial in Breda, Netherlands
Breda, Netherlands (Ports Europe) August 12, 2024 – The trial started of three directors of a Vlissingen port terminal company last Thursday. They are...
Customs agents find 93 kg of cocaine on port of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) August 11, 2024 -Two days ago, Greek customs agents seized around 93 kilograms of cocaine at the port of Thessaloniki. The...
Authorities seize over €16m worth of cannabis in Rosslare, Ireland
Dublin, Ireland (Ports Europe) August 11, 2024 – Officers of the Revenue and Gardaà have seized over €16m worth of cannabis in Rosslare Europort,...
Fake luxury goods worth €15 mln seized in Port of Trieste
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) August 8, 2024 – A joint operation of various official agencies has seized almost 115,000 items of counterfeit luxury...
Over 34 kg of cocaine seized in Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 6, 2024 – 34.4 kg cocaine valued at more than 1 million euros was discovered by Greek officials with the help of...
Drug trafficking moves from Algeciras port to Marbella
Marbella, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2024 – Drug trafficking gangs are increasingly moving their operations to Spain’s Marbella because of a...
800 kg cocaine for port of Antwerp seized in Columbian port of Buenaventura
Buenaventura, Colombia (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – 796 kilograms of cocaine destined for the Belgium port of Antwerp was discovered in Columbia’s...
Port of Oslo flooded with drugs
Oslo, Norway (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – The mayor of Norway’s capital and main port Oslo, Anne Lindboe, said drugs worth up to 677 million euro...
4 tonnes of cocaine seized in Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 28, 2024 – More than 4,000 kg of cocaine were seized in Spain’s Barcelona port on July 26. The drug was hidden in rice...
3,200 kg of crystal meth seized in Rotterdam port, Antwerp also
Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Ports Europe) July 27, 2024 – An all-time record quantity of 3,200 kg of methamphetamine (crystal meth) was sized by...
Cocaine bound for Belgium seized in Asuncion, Paraguay
Asuncion, Paraguay (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – The authorities in Paraguay on Tuesday announced the largest cocaine seizure in the country’s...
660 kg of cocaine in two seizures in Spain’s Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2024 – A criminal network importing cocaine from South America hidden in double bottoms of metal containers has...
More than 4 tonnes of cocaine for Antwerp seized in Paraguay
Asuncion, Paraguay (Ports Europe) July 18, 2024 – More than 4 tonnes of cocaine bound for Belgium’s port of Antwerp were discovered on July 16 by...
6.23 tonnes of cocaine for Germany seized in Ecuador
Guayaquil, Ecuador (Ports Europe) July 16, 2024 – 6.23 tonnes of cocaine hidden in a container with bananas, was seized in Posorja deep-water port, 85 km...
15 kg of cocaine seized in Finland’s port of Naantali
Naantali, Finland (Ports Europe) July 15, 2024 – Finnish customs officials have seized 15 kg of cocaine with a street value of 2.25 million euro from a...
Cocaine seized at Port of Haifa
Haifa, Israel (Ports Europe) July 12, 2024 – The authorities have seized cocaine valued at 25 million euros at Haifa port. Last month, police seized 16...