19 September 2024 Windward
From Ireland’s huge cocaine bust to the fentanyl flood in the U.S., Windward attempts to keep the industry updated about the latest cat-and-mouse maneuvers involving drug smuggling. The Financial Times recently published an important news analysis:
“The Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre — Narcotics (MAOC-N), a joint US, UK and European operations centre for narcotics traffic based in Lisbon and focusing mainly on smaller vessels, has registered an increase in Polish-flagged pleasure craft suspected of carrying drugs since 2021.
While MAOC-N was monitoring 12 Polish-flagged vessels potentially linked to trafficking in 2021, that number rose to 31 in 2022 and 47 last year. Boats appear on the organisation’s radar because of intelligence tip-offs, ongoing investigations and suspicious vessel or crew movements.”
All vessels marked as high risk for smuggling in Windward’s Maritime AI™ platform for the last 30 days (17/09/2024).
The Financial Times further notes that drug traffickers are taking advantage of a legal loophole that prevents law enforcement members from boarding Polish-flagged vessels at sea. The article states that the number of new boat registrations has rocketed from about 2,000 in Poland’s system in 2020, to almost 77,000 currently.
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