Record drug haul: Three Canadians charged over 95kg of cocaine found on cruise ship in Sydney

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Three Canadians have appeared in court after almost 100 kilograms of cocaine was seized on a cruise ship docked in Sydney Harbour, the largest amount ever brought into Australia via a passenger vessel.

Officers from the Australian Border Force, with the help of sniffer dogs, searched the ship's passenger cabins on Sunday and allegedly found 95 kilograms of the drug packed into suitcases.

Tim Fitzgerald, the regional commander for the ABF in NSW, said it was the largest amount of drugs seized at an airport or a cruise ship in Australia.

He said officers initially searched one cabin where they found a suitcase containing about 35 kilograms of cocaine in numerous packages and then searched another cabin where they found suitcases containing a further 60 kilograms of the drug.

"This particular cruise ship - because of the nature and the amount of ports it had been to - was considered quite high risk in itself."

"The seizure of these drugs has disrupted the supply of cocaine to the streets of Sydney and beyond."

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