Portugal

So what?  A pivot from container concealment to fast speedboat runs makes the smuggling harder to catch at ports and pushes enforcement further out to sea, which is exactly the shift a stepped-up interdiction posture is meant to counter. If European governments do adopt engine-disabling boarding tactics, it would mark the sharpest escalation yet in how the EU polices its Atlantic approach — worth watching for whether it pushes trafficking routes further south toward West Africa instead.