Large cocaine volumes found aboard MSC vessel following false bomb threat

When box vessel MSC Lorena was forced to dock in Dutch port Vlissingen due to a bomb threat, authorities made a surprise discovery. It’s not the first time that cocaine is found aboard an MSC vessel.
Archival photo of MSC container in a port terminal. | Photo: Pr / Msc
Archival photo of MSC container in a port terminal. | Photo: Pr / Msc

More than 2,400 kilograms of cocaine have accidentally been detected at container ship MSC Lorena when the vessel in late December was forced to turn back from a voyage to Antwerp and head for the Dutch port of Vlissingen due to a bomb threat, writes Dutch media NL Times.

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