Colombian authorities announced the seizure of 7.6 tonnes of cocaine at the port of Cartagena, reportedly destined for the Netherlands, in an operation described by Abelardo de la Espriella, identified in the report as Colombia’s president, as the country’s largest drug seizure of its kind in the past decade.

Speaking in Cartagena on October 20, de la Espriella said the operation had been carried out in coordination with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

He added that the shipment was valued at approximately 43 billion Colombian pesos domestically, while its estimated market value would have exceeded $200 million upon arrival in the Netherlands.