Egypt seizes 8.2 tonnes of hashish in transit container at Port Said
Egypt's anti-narcotics authority seized 8.22 tonnes of hashish and more than 8 million Captagon pills from a transit container at Port Said on 6 January 2021. The container had come from Lebanon and was bound for Libya, with cartons labelled Made in Lebanon concealing the drugs.
Egyptian security forces seized8.22 tonnes of hashish and more than 8 million
Captagon pills from a container transiting through Port Said on 6 January
2021.[1]The Interior Ministry called it the biggest drug haul ever seized
in the country and one of the biggest blows to drug smugglers.[1]It put
the combined value of the haul at 611 million Egyptian pounds.[1]
The container’s owners had provided shipping documents declaring plastic
materials, to conceal the drugs packed inside.[1]The General Administration
for Narcotics Control found the consignment hidden in a container sent by
transit from one Arab country to another through Port Said.[1]The shipment
had come from Lebanon, where it was loaded on 19 December in a warehouse
belonging to a Lebanese exporting firm before passing through the Port of
Beirut, and it was bound for Libya.[2]Cartons inside were labelled “Made
in Lebanon”, the narcotics control administration said.[2]
A Levant transit route
Middle East Monitor noted that Lebanon is believed to be the world’s
third-largest supplier of hashish after Morocco and Afghanistan.[2]The same
account describes Lebanon and neighbouring Syria as conduit routes for
Captagon, a drug popular in the Gulf.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Middle East Monitor describes the hashish as almost nine tonnes while the Interior Ministry statement gives 8.22 tonnes, and the report uses the ministry figure.
No arrests were reported in the opened sources.
The ministry valued the combined haul with the Captagon pills at 611 million Egyptian pounds, so no cannabis-only value is recorded.
The sources do not name the Lebanese exporting firm or anyone responsible for the shipment.
Customs officers at Hurghada International Airport stopped a foreign passenger arriving from a European country and found a plastic roll of green pieces and two bottles, one holding a green plant, all suspected to be marijuana. The Hurghada prosecution is investigating the seizure, and customs filed report No. 12 of 2026.
Customs officers at Hurghada International Airport found a black bag holding 55.5 grams of a green herb suspected to be marijuana in the luggage of a passenger arriving from Turkey. They filed customs seizure report No. 9 of 2026 and held the material; no arrest or charge has been reported.
Cairo postal customs stopped a US parcel of six hair- and hand-care containers weighing 6 kg that airport anti-drug officers said was cannabis oil worth about 12 million Egyptian pounds; prosecutors ordered a foreign national held for four days.
Egypt's drug-control police arrested seven people in four operations in Alexandria and Sharqia and seized 64 kg of hashish, the Interior Ministry said. A woman arrested in Zagazig was found with 5 kg of hashish, a pistol, ammunition and a car, and police valued the haul at about 6 million Egyptian pounds.
