The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday offloaded a nearly 50,000-pound haul of cocaine worth more than $360 million, bringing it onshore at Port Everglades in southern Florida..

"It's the most cocaine ever seized by a single cutter in one deployment. So business is good," Adm. Nathan Moore, the commander of Coast Guard Atlantic Area, said in his first network interview.

But despite recent U.S. air and missile strikes on what the Trump administration says is cartel smuggling infrastructure, the Coast Guard has not seen "any noticeable difference" in the flow of cocaine , Moore said.

"I would just tell you that the drugs you see here on [Cutter] Stone — most have been seized in September, October and even early in the month of November. So business is good for us and we are continuing to

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