Drugs worth more than £160m seized at British port

Shipments of cocaine and cannabis worth more than £160m have been seized at the same British port in the space of a month.

Border Force officers found 77kg of cocaine, with an estimated street value of £38m, hidden among pallets of bananas in a shipping container at Southampton Port on 28 June.

A further 530kg of the Class A drug, worth around £47m, was seized from another shipping container at the port later the same day, the Home Office said.

A 960kg cocaine haul, estimated at £76m, was discovered on 10 July, while 290kg of cannabis, worth £1.2m, was found hidden within a shipment of hardwood flooring days later.

Home Office minister Jo White said: "We are one step ahead of these vile criminal gangs.

"Border Force has cost them tens of millions in under a month.

"These drugs fuel further offending, destroy lives and inflict misery on our communities.

"We will continue our relentless action to hit supply chains, protect the public and secure our borders."

In the year ending March 2025, Border Force seized 150 tonnes of illegal drugs with a street value of £2.6bn, a 40% increase on the previous year and the highest figure since records began.

Lyn Sari, head of Border Force South Region, said: "Every seizure we make is a setback for organised crime.

"I would like to thank our dedicated officers, who work around the clock to prevent these drugs from reaching our streets and causing immense harms.

"Border Force is working ever more closely with law enforcement partners in the UK and overseas to combat drug smuggling."

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