The Cocaine Trade - Home Affairs Committee Contents

6  DISRUPTING THE SUPPLY (continued)

Figure 5: Main cocaine trafficking routes from South America and Africa to Europe (EMCDDA 2008)[158]

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158   Map courtesy of the EMCDDA, Monitoring the supply of cocaine to Europe, (October 2008), p.14: http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/technical-datasheets/cocaine-trafficking. Trafficking flows represented on the map are an attempt to synthesise the analysis of a variety of international and national organisations. Such analyses are based on information relating to drug seizures along the trafficking routes, but also on other intelligence information from sources such as law enforcement agencies in transit and destination countries, and anecdotal reports. The main routes represented on the map should be considered as indicative rather than accurate descriptions of the main flows, based on the knowledge that there may often be deviations to other countries along the routes, and that there are a multitude of secondary sub-regional routes which are not represented on the map. Such 'stopovers' may change very rapidly depending on constraints (e.g. law enforcement control points) and facilitating factors (e.g. commercial routes, corruption). Back

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Prepared 3 March 2010