Three people have been arrested after 47kg of cocaine were found on a cargoship in Miami.

CBS cited police as saying they acted on a tip off to stake out the 590-dwt Lady Philomena (built 1956) in the Miami River on Saturday.

Haitian nationals Jihmy Jean-Pierre, Franz Mompremier and Emanuel Reginald were held after they were spotted trying to unload the drugs from a cargo hold in buckets.

A