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英国国内事务部在社交媒体上表示，该国边境官员在不到一个月的时间里，于单个港口查获了约5吨可卡因。
该部门称，这批毒品估价超过4亿英镑，约合5.38亿美元。
查获地点位于伦敦门户港——一个距伦敦约30英里的深海集装箱码头。它是英格兰第二大港口，负责承运大型集装箱货轮。
英国内政部表示，“犯罪团伙试图通过将毒品藏在其他货物中来逃避检查”，藏匿地点包括一批香蕉货运和一桶南美红酒。现场照片显示了集装箱内、货运包裹中的毒品，以及散落在某建筑地面上的毒品。
内政部未透露此次缉毒行动是否有人员被捕。
这并非近几周来伦敦港口发生的首起重大缉毒案件。今年3月，三名男子因涉嫌试图通过英国南安普顿码头走私价值近1亿美元的可卡因而被起诉。这三名男子均已被捕，将于4月17日再次出庭受审，他们当时将毒品藏在了一批香蕉货运中。
2024年2月，南安普顿码头的另一批香蕉货运中被查出藏有超过12500磅可卡因。在当时，这是英国有记录以来最大规模的单起违禁品缉获案。
全球各地的执法部门都曾查获藏在香蕉货运中的毒品。2025年8月，希腊警方在一批香蕉货运中查获了近600磅可卡因；同年7月，俄罗斯方面称其查获了藏在香蕉下方的1800磅可卡因；今年5月，挪威一家水果分销商的工作人员发现了一包违禁毒品后，挪威当局在一批香蕉货运中查获了超过320磅可卡因。
U.K. authorities seize 5 tons of cocaine worth over $500 million from banana, red wine shipments
April 11, 2026 11:54 AM EDT / CBS News
Border agents in the United Kingdom have seized about five tons of cocaine at a single port in just under a month, the country’s Home Office said on social media.
The drugs are estimated to be worth over £400 million, or about $538 million, the agency said.
The drugs were seized at London Gateway, a deep-sea container port about 30 miles from London. It is the second-largest port in England and handles large container ships.
The Home Office said “criminal gangs attempted to evade detection” by hiding drugs in other cargo, including inside a banana shipment and on a vat of South American wine. Photos show the drugs inside cargo containers and inside shipments, as well as spread out on a building floor.
The Home Office did not say if any arrests have been made as part of the seizures.
It’s not the first major bust at a London port in recent weeks. Three men were charged after allegedly attempting to smuggle nearly $100 million worth of cocaine through England’s Southampton Docks in March. The three men, who were all arrested and will next appear in court on April 17, hid the drugs in a banana shipment.
In February 2024, another Southampton Docks banana shipment was found to be holding more than 12,500 pounds of cocaine. At the time, it was the country’s largest recorded single seizure of illicit drugs.
Authorities around the world have found drugs smuggled inside banana shipments. Greek police seized nearly 600 pounds of cocaine inside a banana shipment in August 2025. In July, Russia said it seized 1,800 pounds of cocaine hidden under bananas, and in May, authorities in Norway found over 320 pounds of cocaine inside a banana shipment after workers at a fruit distributor in Norway found a packet of the illicit drugs.
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