Ecuadorian officials have seized 3.5 tonnes of cocaine after separate finds in two banana containers destined for Europe.
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One of the containers was bound for Britain while the other was to be shipped to Rotterdam in the Netherlands, police tweeted on Saturday.
Officials intercepted a truck carrying a container as it approached the Pacific port of the city of Guayaquil, police said.
They found 92 boxes with a total of 2300 one kilogram packages of cocaine.
In the second container, located in an undisclosed port in the same region, they said they found 87 boxes and 1218 packets of cocaine.
One person was arrested in each case, with the haul estimated to be worth more than $US87.5 million ($A127 million).
The incidents came a day after Ecuadorian police reported a cocaine find in an apartment in Manta, hidden in 4800 cans of tuna intended for export.
Elsewhere, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele tweeted that his navy had intercepted a smuggling boat in the Pacific Ocean carrying 2.2 tonnes of cocaine worth more than $US55 million ($A80 million). The crew was arrested.
Australian Associated Press
