The European Commission today presented a new strategy to combat organised crime and trafficking in Drug Alliance, which includes the creation of an alliance European Ports Initiative to increase the resilience of ports criminal infiltration and the strengthening of the work of the customs, law enforcement and public and private operators in ports across Europe, equipping them, e.g., scanning devices and equipment state-of-the-art.

The new strategy has been designed to address a of the most important threats it faces the European Union, with the activities of criminal networks have made a quantum leap in terms of reach, sophistication and violent consequences of their trafficking in continuous growth and with cocaine seizures that, for example, in 2021 in the EU reached a record level of 303 tonnes. Individual New record seizures were made last August, before with eight million tonnes of cocaine detected and detained in the port of Rotterdam, and then with 9.5 million tonnes of drugs seized in the Spanish port of Algeciras.