Tag: Rotterdam

• Friday, August 11th 2023 - 11:17 UTC

  Major haul of cocaine in Rotterdam: eight tons in a shipment of Ecuadorean bananas

  

  Ecuador again is headlines. Netherlands authorities have seized eight tons of cocaine in the port of Rotterdam, prosecutors announced on Thursday. The drug is valued at an estimated US$660 million and represents the biggest haul ever recorded at the port. The last biggest was a 4,500-kilogram haul made in 2020.