Cocaine has been discovered in the hold of a Danaos boxship in Peru.

Local media said 121kg of the drug was found on the 3,400-teu Dimitris C (built 2001) at Ilo, according to police.

A search had been carried out after an intelligence tip-off.

The Peruvian navy said in a statement that the vessel had arrived on 13 September from Iquique in Chile.