France Launches G7-Backed Ports Network to Fight Global Drug Trafficking

France has launched a G7-backed network linking major ports, customs services and international organizations to improve cooperation against global drug trafficking.

The initiative was announced during the G7 foreign ministers' meeting in Paris. It covers 14 ports and includes G7 countries, Brazil and South Korea, alongside organizations such as Interpol, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the International Maritime Organization and the World Customs Organization.

The network is intended to make it easier for authorities to share intelligence, identify smuggling routes and detect containers used by criminal organizations. It also aims to improve operational coordination between ports, customs services and law-enforcement agencies.

France said the effort would address the entire trafficking chain, linking production and transit countries with destination markets rather than treating each port as an isolated problem.

The launch establishes a cooperation framework. It does not represent a new seizure, arrest operation or claim that trafficking through participating ports has already been stopped.