A joint operation by the Tax Agency and the Guardia Civil

• The drug was attached inside one of the cooling nozzles of the ship Nord Mamore, which was making a technical anchoring stop to refuel on its route from Brazil to the port of Lisbon.

August 11, 2022.- The Customs Surveillance Service of the Tax Agency in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Civil Guard have seized 200 kilograms of cocaine that was attached inside a of the cooling nozzles of the ship Nord Mamore. The operation took place while the ship was making a technical stop to refuel on its route from Brazil to the port of Lisbon.

The intervention has been the result of one of the anchoring visits that the Fiscal Protection and Borders Section of the Civil Guard of the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has been carrying out jointly with the Combined Customs Surveillance Unit of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

These types of visits are carried out in order to inspect the cargo of the ships. In this case, in the early hours of August 5, a visit was made to the cargo ship called Nord Mamore, which was anchored in anchoring area number 2 of the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife to refuel. The declared cargo was corn and its destination was the port of Lisbon.

During the course of the inspection of the cargo and the rest of the common areas of the vessel, up to a total of eight bales were detected. The discovery occurred during the inspection of a cooling water intake nozzle of the ship's machinery, carried out from the outside of the hull by personnel from the underwater activities team of the Civil Guard (GEAS).

These bundles were tied inside the nozzle and to each other when they were located by the divers. After analyzing them, it turned out that the presence of narcotic substances was detected inside, specifically cocaine, weighing 200 kilograms once the contents of the packages containing the bales were weighed.