In the port area of Vado Ligure the financiers of the Command Provincial Savona and the officials of the Excise Agency, Customs and Monopoli/Ufficio delle Dogane di Savona seized a large amount of cocaine. The amazing, consisting of 80 loaves for a total weight of about 92 kilos, was stored in the engine compartments of a refrigerated container disembarked from a ship. The box reefer, from Ecuador and containing bananas, was identified during the ordinary monitoring of trade flows seafarers aimed in particular at transnational shipments of goods from geographical areas considered "at risk".

The seizure follows a similar operation that a few days ago had led to the discovery of another 50 packets of cocaine, for a total weight of about 62 kilos, also hidden in the compartments refrigeration engine of a container unloaded from a ship from Ecuador.

The Guardia di Finanza has specified that the two huge matches of drugs, if placed on the retail market, would have yielded Estimated revenues of about ten million euros.

Since the beginning of this year the amount of narcotic seized in the ports of the province of Savona amounts to about 1,800 kilograms.