The feds should be legally equipped to take ships that are used to bring drugs here.
I knew of a young woman who regularly smuggled leather purses from Juarez to sell in her shop in El Paso. One time she was given some grief at the border and the purses were seized. As she left customs, she made it a point to flip off the customs agents. A couple of days later, they took her car.
I don’t know why they’re not. At the border there are lots full of cars that were seized because they contained drugs.
It's not the "Vessel" (MSC Gayane), it's the containers. When someone crosses a land border, it's a single container, that's the responsible party. If it was a railroad, same thing, you could confiscate the car, but not the entire train or locomotive.