(Adds AFM statement)
The police were investigating a case of suspected illegal export of pyrotechnics after manufactured pyrotechnics were found in a container yesterday evening.
The container had already been loaded onto a ship at Laboratory Wharf in Grand Harbour.
Magistrate Edwina Grima is holding an inquiry assisted by court experts.
The AFM in a separate statement said the explosive material was ready-for-use fireworks, which had been hidden behind some wooden container pallets. Their 'considerable number' could not be immediately ascertained at the time.
The material will be destroyed.