News / Customs teams forced to step up war against drug smugglers

Border forces around the world are warning that despite making more drugs finds at container ports, they cannot know how much illegal trade is getting through.

In the past month, more than 570kg of cocaine has been intercepted at ports in Turkey, New Zealand and Hong Kong, but in August Dutch customs officials recorded their largest-ever seizure, some 23,000kg, with a street value of more than $650m.

And the Belgian border force told The Loadstar efforts ...