81. Venezuela is a major transshipment point for drugs headed to the United States and Europe. 82. As China and Taiwan do not have official ties, Hong Kong has been used as a transshipment point for goods between the two rivals. 83. But he acknowledged the huge scope of the drug trafficking problem in the country just south of the US border which is a major transshipment point for narcotics. 84. Caribbean US territories are popular transshipment points for traffickers in part because travellers by aircraft do not have to pass through US customs when arriving on the US mainland. 85. Vietnam has become an important transshipment point for drugs being moved from the Golden Triangle area of Laos, Burma and Thailand through to the west. 86. It is also used as a transshipment point for cocaine coming from Colombia to the United States. 87. Mexico is a primary transshipment point for narcotics coming from South America and a major source of marijuana consumed in the United States. 88. On Sunday, Dadidow said Venezuela had become a transshipment point for illegal drugs as well as a consumer market and producer. 89. Philippine National Police director-general Recaredo Sarmiento said the suspect was connected to Taiwan and China-based drug syndicates using Manila as a transshipment point. 90. The decertification is a first for tiny Belize, in Central America and a favored transshipment point, US officials said. |