What’s a Bulker I hear you ask..
A bulk carrier or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo—such as grain, coal, ore, steel coils, and cement—in its cargo holds.
Police in Western Australia have made a substantial shipboard cocaine bust, seizing 900 kilos of the drug from hidden compartments inside a bulker.
The bulker St. Pinot left San Lorenzo, Argentina in April, and arrived at the Kwinana Bulk Terminal in Western Australia this week. Little did her crew suspect that the Australian Federal Police, Australian Border Force and Western Australia Police had already been investigating a suspected shipment of cocaine on board the vessel.
On Wednesday evening, the Australian Federal Police confirmed that they were conducting a search of the ship. As of Wednesday night, they had located 900 kilos of cocaine valued at about $350 million on the Australian market.
Helicopter video footage obtained by local TV news showed Australian police lowering an officer into a hatch in the bulker’s deck using a high-angle rescue tripod.
Read more at https://maritime-executive.com/article/australian-police-seize-900-kilos-of-cocaine-from-bulker
Sean Hocking
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