Over 588 kilograms of cocaine seized in Colima

Members of the Ministry of Nay (SEMAR) seized 555 cocaine packages with an average weight of 533.6 kilograms in coastal city of Manzanillo, Colima, last Friday. The drug was hidden in metal rolls used for sugar cane milling and was found while marines of the 6th Naval Region were performing a routine inspection in the harbor.

The container were the drug was found came in the APL Holland vessel bearing the flag of Singapur and was shipped in the port of Buenaventura, Colombia.

A release from the Ministry of Navy said that “It was necessary to make a special laser cut to penetrate the metal rolls where 555 cocaine packages were found, with an average weight of 533.6 kilograms...with the help of drug-sniffer dogs”.

This is the second drug shipment that is being intercepted by the Ministry of Navy in the past two weeks. Only last November 8, the agency seized 220 kilograms of cocaine coming from Chile.

Colima is home to one of the most important and modern commercial ports in Mexico, that of Manzanillo, where the Ministry of Navy has secured most of the cocaine arriving by sea , mainly from Colombia and Peru.