Guardia Civil officers at the port of Algeciras, Cádiz, confiscated 48 tonnes of cannabis resin hidden in two semitrailers that had arrived by ferry from Tangiers, Morocco, on 26 June 2015, and arrested both drivers.[1] Spain’s Tax Agency later confirmed that almost 48 tonnes of hashish were seized in Algeciras in 2015, concealed in two lorries.[2] The operation was described as historic: the largest quantity of cannabis ever seized on land in Spain.[1]

The Guardia Civil said it had already confiscated more than 160 tonnes of hashish and 950 kg of cocaine in Andalusia that year, and had dismantled 126 drug-trafficking networks across 2014 and 2015.[1] Investigations continued to identify the network behind the shipment and the drugs’ final destination.[1]