DavidLange

Hope you had a great flight on FedEx.

We've run charters for small pieces of machinery or IT equipment in the case of a plant or system shutdown, where the cost of the shipment paled in comparison to losing the plant. We've handled several of those situations.

No.

Very carefully...

We typically ship whales in a sling in a tank with water provided by the zoo or aquarium where they can be kept wet throughout transit.

Typically the aquarium's vet/caretakers will travel with the animal as attendants, making sure the whale is happy and calm throughout the trip.

The tank and the whale itself usually weigh between 5 and 6 thousand pounds, which is well within the weight limit of the plane, so that isn't a problem.

We're a premium service, so the monetary value of the items being shipped might not be as high as the end value to the customer. If it wasn't extremely valuable to the shipper, they wouldn't be chartering a plane with us in the first place.

It's not about dollar amount, but the speed we can deliver items when they are needed somewhere right now.

For example, moving 150,000 pounds of plastic sheeting from China to Port-au-Prince wasn't a monetarily valuable shipment, however it was extremely important to the lives of the people in Haiti.