AlsoTapered
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the reason dutch and uk stuff is similar is its often the same stuff
It's certainly true that the port of Rotterdam is a major distribution hub for all drugs. When you examine how the large-scale smugglers work, things as simple as swapping the CSCs and bribing the crane operators not to question location errors. Thus a container from Pakistan (for example) can be replated as a container from Norway (for example).
In fact the UK is doubly useful as it's a major market for drugs but equally it's not recognised as a producer of drugs. I remember one very large-scale H-smuggling operation in which tens of thousands of sawing machines were sent to Pakistan and the dope was smuggled in the returns. Since most large ports are within a custom-controlled area, as long as the returns hasn't officially left the port in Pakistan, it wasn't searched as such a likely load used for smuggling. I believe it wasn't discovered for several years and in that time it's estimated that many tonnes of H were imported.
I've talked to customs agents and they all stated that PEOPLE smuggling drugs about their person is a tiny fraction of the imports... but one day they found someone with 2.5Kg of coke and told me that after work they were all going to the pub to celebrate.. I presume that it put them over their target.