Ecuador’s Navy Boards Hapag Lloyd Boxship Under Way to Remove Cocaine

On Saturday, Ecuador’s navy seized about 800 kilos of cocaine from a Hapag-Lloyd boxship off the coast of Manta after receiving a tip-off about possible drugs on board. 

At a position about 45 nautical miles off Manta, an Armada del Ecuador boarding team met up with the boxship Guayaquil Express, an 11,500 TEU container ship headed from the Posorja terminal to the Panama Canal. Th…