“A number of unknown individuals attempted to move the drugs into different containers to be loaded onto a ship bound for Belgium,” said Carlos Danvers, director of public affairs.
This is far more than the 2,580 kg seized by Dominican authorities at the same port in 2006.
The monitoring agency reported that the Caribbean region is reemerging as a major drug trafficking route from Colombia to Europe.
A report last year found that cocaine use was on the rise in several Western European countries, including the UK, Belgium, France and Spain.
Europe accounted for 21% of global cocaine users in 2020, according to a UN report., external.
Evidence shows that use of the drug has serious health consequences, with recent data showing a 30 per cent rise in cocaine-related deaths in England and Wales, bringing deaths from drug poisoning to a 30-year high.
