The anti-narcotics brigade of the Colombian police has found 2.2 tons of cocaine in the port city of Santa Marta that had to be shipped to Antwerp. The cargo was hidden in a container with 6 bulk bags of copper ore. The bags together weighed 5.9 tonnes. Of these, 2200 kilos were found to be cocaine.

According to local media , the intercepted cocaine is owned by the Mexican Gulf cartel.

At the end of December last year, 126 kilos of coke were also intercepted in Santa Marta , with Antwerp as its destination. The Gulf cartel is also supposed to have been behind that shipment. And in February 2018, 1700 kilos of cocaine were found in the port of Antwerp among a load of bananas . This cargo also came from Santa Marta.