Seaport Police

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Sea containers stacked on top of each other in the Maasvlakte harbor in the port of Rotterdam
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Sharp increase in teenagers caught retreiving smuggled drugs
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image of packages of cocaine found hidden within a shipment of magnets at a company in Moerdijk, Noord-Brabant, January 27, 2026.
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Industrial magnets used to hide 4,830 kg of cocaine; Among largest Dutch drug busts ever
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Police seizes 3,000 kilos of cocaine in Moerdijk.
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Man arrested at Schiphol for financing crane used to smuggle 3,000 kg of cocaine
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The Rotterdam Port and the Nieuwe Maas (in 2018)
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Significant decrease in intercepted drug shipments at the Port of Rotterdam in 2024
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3,600 kilograms of cocaine, worth €270 million, intercepted at the port of Vlissingen, 19 June 2024
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Biggest drug bust this year: 3,600 kg cocaine found in Ecuadorian bananas at Vlissingen
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Nearly 1,200 kilograms of cocaine found in a container full of bananas at the Rotterdam port. 21 December 2023
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Over 1,700 kilograms of cocaine found in banana and jelly shipments
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Some 458 kg of cocaine found at the Rotterdam port was sent from Curaçao; 29 June 2023
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Another €54 million in cocaine seized at Rotterdam port; Shipments from Curaçao, Dominican Republic
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Some 1,124 kg of cocaine found mixed in with car tires during a Customs check at the Rotterdam port. 16 May 2023
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Nearly 1,600 kg of cocaine found in shipments of car tires, fruit at Rotterdam port
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container ship MSC Lorena
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Container ship crews play a key role in cocaine trade via Dutch ports
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530 kilos of cocaine found in container from Guyana in port of Rotterdam November 25, 2021
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Over €5 billion in cocaine seized at Rotterdam port last year
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Load of cocaine in vintage Volkswagen
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1069 kilos of cocaine intercepted between a load of beer and vintage cars
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A Koninklijke Marechaussee officer and sniffer dog
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Dutch cops found nearly 1,480 migrants hidden in trucks, containers last year
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Bananas
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"Large batch" cocaine found at Rotterdam fruit company
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107 kilos of cocaine found in a false ceiling in a container at the port of Rotterdam, 28 Jun 2017
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Cameras to help fight cocaine, human trafficking at Rotterdam port
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Paramedics and a police officer at the scene of an incident
Business
Crane topples on IJssel river; two hurt
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Some 4,000 kilos cocaine caught at Rotterdam port
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Some 500 kilos of cocaine found hidden in Rotterdam carnival game
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Port drug seizures top 9,000 kilos in 2014