During the 18th century the town was a major smuggling centre.

During the American Civil War in the early 1860s, the town evolved into a smuggling center for ships running the federal blockade of ports in the Confederacy.

New Providence had two periods of high economic success during the American Civil War and during Prohibition, when it was a smuggling center.

Tijuana is a major smuggling center for traffickers.

Barry Island, when it was still an island, was another smuggling centre.

According to The Washington Times, MS "is thought to have established a major smuggling center" in Mexico.

In short, human smuggling centers on the willful, illegal transportation of migrants into another country.

Even so, Chinese flocked to Hong Kong, and the colony prospered as a smuggling center, pirates' lair and den of iniquity.

An investigator from the smuggling center is in Thailand, sifting through computer records.

The two hamlets form one of Essex's oldest fishing villages and the area was once renowned as a smuggling centre.