Authorities in New Jersey and Canada recently made arrests in separate drug smuggling cases involving marijuana, methamphetamine and more.
A truckload carrier-backed study finds cocaine and opioid abuse by truckers are underreported at FMCSA.
Carriers need to ramp up education efforts on Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse testing to help drivers understand the zero-tolerance approach to safety-conscious driving positions.
New details on record 2019 cocaine haul aboard MSC Gayane — which may not have been the first run — as U.S. wraps up convictions.
A trucker could face prosecution after U.S. border officers say they found nearly 70 pounds of cocaine in a trailer full of watermelons and peppers she was hauling to Canada.
CBP seized the Hong Kong-bound corn flakes frosted with cocaine at an express consignment facility near Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized a shipment of cereal from South America that was covered in cocaine instead of sugar.
Drivers testing positive for drugs fell 12.7% in November.
As prosecutors rack up guilty pleas in 2019 case, more coke crosses via ship from South America to Europe in 2020.
A tip led investigators to the 90 bricks of cocaine weighing nearly 226 pounds.
New court documents shed light on a shipboard drug ring.
FMCSA’s first detailed summary report also reveals high number of “limited” queries.
Three pilots and three ground staff are free more than a week after at least 175 pounds of cocaine allegedly were found on a Martinair-operated freighter.
Parent company KLM says it is cooperating with authorities.
Maritime, air and overland trade routes into Europe are being piggybacked by criminal gangs deploying the latest digital supply chain technologies to help meet mushrooming demand for illegal drugs across the European Union (EU), according to a major new report examining the continent’s illicit drugs business. The 2019 EU Drug Markets Report by the EU […]
Europol believe Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta mafia is behind the use of Gioia Tauro as a cocaine hub for western Europe.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Milwaukee Tool builds $86 million factory in Torreón, Mexico; husband and wife truckers killed in a crash near El Paso; $1.6 million in cocaine found in carrot shipment; Texas college expands CDL program to attract more trucking students. […]
A federal prosecutor filed to seize a container ship at the center of one of the largest U.S. cocaine busts in history, a first step to a possible forfeiture of the vessel. William McSwain, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, said agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection executed the seizure warrant […]
Could the record seizure of cocaine aboard the MSC Gayane be a sign of things to come?
In 2018, international shipping recorded the fewest number of casualties in 100 years, insurer Allianz reports. A disturbing truth about worrisome Wednesdays, and a curious incident involving cocaine-bearing sharks, were also revealed.
Joseph Lipsey III, the now former chief executive officer of Lipsey Logistics Worldwide, has relinquished his ownership shares in the company.
