Sentence examples for smuggling hub from inspiring English sources

The country's main economic activity is serving as a smuggling hub for the global arms market.

With lush land for marijuana growing and a major port, Michoacán has been a precious smuggling hub for years.

Mr. Levinson disappeared in March 2007 on Kish Island, a Persian Gulf resort that is also a smuggling hub.

Iraqi intelligence officials confirm that Isis uses Anbar province, which shares a border with Jordan, as a major smuggling hub.

Then they pay a final $5,000 when they reach Los Angeles, a smuggling hub considered the beginning of the end of their journey.

Instead, Mbalo's boss, Moussa, drove him to Garabulli, a known smuggling hub on the Libyan coast that lies east of Tripoli.

Large-scale seizures of ivory in Singapore over the last three years make the south-east Asian city-state one of the world's premier ivory smuggling hubs for organised crime, say conservation watchdogs.

The Rio Grande Valley is one of the busiest smuggling hubs on the Mexican border.

He said authorities would shutter the overflowing facility and transport migrants to a new center in Ras al-Arah, but Human Rights Watch says this location is home to one of Yemen's largest smuggling hubs.

The move has proved massively unpopular among locals in the city of Agadez and other smuggling hubs, and although migrant smuggling continues, the Nigerien government estimates that more than 6,000 people working in the migrant smuggling industry have lost their livelihoods.

Jos Colpin, a spokesman for the Belgian judge-prosecutors office, said that Mr. Bout was believed to have used a small airport on the North Sea near Ostend, Belgium, as his western air-smuggling hub, flying planes from there to central Europe to load up with arms, and then to Africa or Afghanistan.