Distinguishing rice from wrong: lessons from a Hamburg cocaine bust

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South American drug cartels using containers to ship their goods into consumer markets has been on a steep upward curve in recent years, as smugglers have begun to realise that the trade routes have become increasingly complicated due to transhipment operations. This analysis, in Maritime Executive by maritime law expert Ian Ralby, looks at last year’s discovery of 1.5 tonnes of cocaine in a container in Hamburg and contends that it was wrong for many at the time to focus on the fact that ...