"They are trying to get large shipments of heroin out, and some have been successful".
It is not only moving large shipments of drugs that is lucrative for the cartels, however.
Riverboats from China now carry large shipments of temperate fruits and vegetables like pears, apples and lettuce downstream to Thailand.
Increasingly, Mr. Rob erts said, Cubans and South Americans are handling large shipments of heroin into the United States.
It consequently seems likely that large shipments of such materiel being acquired by – or sent to – those countries are destined for their allies in Syria, Yemen and Libya".
Large shipments of bottled water flown from Bahrain, as well as emergency food supplies, were being shuttled out to the ship by tenders.
In 2009, Kenya was merely an "emerging force" due to two large shipments of Central African ivory passing through Kenya's Indian Ocean port town of Mombasa.
In the last two years, federal, state and local law enforcement officials seized large shipments of drugs from trucks they thought belonged to Mr. Bermudez's operation.
Two very large shipments of such smuggled artefacts had recently been intercepted by Customs in the UK and returned to Iran.
Even so, he said that Iraqi security forces continued to intercept large shipments of weapons and high-powered explosives sent from Iran.
Since then Kenya has become a primary conduit for large shipments of ivory flowing to Asia accounting for over 21.6 tonnes of ivory between 2009 and 2012.
