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Cocaine Smuggling over Smaller North Sea Ports: Ministry of the Interior Warns

Not only Hamburg is in the sights of the cocaine cartels. More and more smugglers are concerned about small ports. What the minister says.

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Police and customs are on the brink of a mystery: after the record findings of the past few years, the criminals suddenly find significantly less cocaine on the net. At the large seaports, strict control is maintained. Have criminals found a new gateway?

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Not only Hamburg is in the sights of the cocaine cartels. More and more smugglers are concerned about small ports. What the minister says.

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Destination ports like Brake or Stade-Bützfleth: Small German ports on the North Sea have become an alternative for cocaine smugglers. They also want to escape the increased security measures in major European seaports like Hamburg or Rotterdam.

Criminals search under water for drug hiding places. But their plan goes wrong. The case shows: not only Hamburg is in the sights of the cartels.

Cocaine smugglers increasingly evade smaller North Sea ports. (symbol image) Bodo Marks/dpa Cocaine smugglers, according to a newspaper report, increasingly evade large sea ports such as Hamburg or Rotterdam at smaller North Sea ports. The import smuggling via smaller ports is a focus for the Lower Saxony authorities because of the state's position as a North Sea region, according to a report by the daily newspapers of the Funke media group, the…

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Berliner Morgenpost broke the news in Berlin, Germany on Wednesday, February 18, 2026.
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