Tag: drugs

Drug and alcohol abuse can have significant negative impacts on seafarers and their ability to perform their duties effectively and safely. Even though the maritime industry has acknowledged this topic and begun to address it, incidents continue to happen. Therefore, a bigger emphasis on prevention is necessary to better address this problem.

Spanish police have made a record cocaine seizure, finding 9.5 tonnes of the drug hidden among boxes of bananas in a shipping container from Ecuador in the southern port of Algeciras.

Europol and Spanish Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) dismantled a criminal organisation smuggling large quantities of cocaine from South America to the EU via the Canary Islands.

Police on the island of Malta, intercepted a merchant ship with 97 kilos of cocaine with a street value of over €11 million, that had just docked at the Malta Freeport in Marsaxlokk.

On 28th July, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) detained bulk carrier with 24kgs of cocaine, at Lagos, Nigeria.

NorthStandard P&I Club has published instructions to inform interested parties how to prevent and handle drug trafficking after observing a large increase in fines associated with drug trafficking cases, and the increasing liabilities that could be imposed.

Mr. Jacob Damgaard, Associate Director, Loss Prevention, Britannia P&I Club says that drug and alcohol abuse is a problem that affects all industries, including shipping.

The (Australian Federal Police) AFP has charged two senior crew members from a bulk cargo carrier for their alleged roles in the importation of 849.5kg of cocaine into Western Australia.

TT Club is increasing its efforts to promote industry awareness of both trends in criminal activity and methods of combatting its success, in response to the exponential growth in contraband drugs entering Europe via ports on the Atlantic seaboard.

A French navy vessel operating in the Middle East as part of a US-led coalition seized four separate shipments of drugs worth $108 million over the past month, according to an announcement of the coalition.