On Saturday, the customs authorities removed 660 kilos of cocaine from a container in the port of Rotterdam. The cocaine was hidden between a load of bales of coffee. The drugs with a street value of more than 26 million euros have been destroyed.

The Rotterdam police already found 300 kilos of cocaine in a delivery van on the Maasvlakte on Friday. That batch had just been removed from a container that was transported from Brazil to Rotterdam. Three men (22 to 28 years old) have been arrested.

Much more cocaine was intercepted in the port of Rotterdam in 2019 than last year: 23,000 kilos compared to 18,000 kilos in the whole of 2018.