Officials in the Netherlands found €600 million ($661 million) worth of cocaine from Ecuador in containers alongside bananas. Rotterdam is one of the main ports for drug traffickers bringing the drug to Europe.
Dutch authorities have seized around 8,000 kilograms (8 tons) of cocaine in Rotterdam, prosecutors announced on Thursday.
"On July 13, customs carried out the largest ever drug seizure in the port of Rotterdam," prosecutors said.
"Once again we have succeeded... in dealing a serious blow to the port's drug traffickers," Rotterdam Customs Director Peter van Buijtenen said.
Dutch customs said that such large loads of cocaine are becoming rarer, with most recent hauls being substantially smaller than that reported on Thursday.
The Netherlands, Belgium and Spain are the top three European countries for illegal cocaine imports.
Thursday's announcement comes a day after Fernando Villavicencio, a leading presidential candidate in Ecuador, was shot dead at a campaign rally.
Cocaine production is at an all time high and pricea are on the floor. Meanwhile drug cartels continue to murder and torture at will. 2 days ago a candidate for president in Ecuador was assassinated by members of a cartel. So tell me again how we are winning the war on drugs.
I mean I can also say the same about people who buy certain brands of bannana, hell there's an ice-cream brand owned by literal neo-nazis at my local convenience store.