FedEx transports priceless artifacts

Logistics Management

Tuesday, January 08, 2013

FedEx has transported 127 crates of Machu Picchu artifacts — stone tools and ceramic fragments that had been housed at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History — from Newark, N.J., to Lima, Peru. The shipment was flown on an Airbus 330 aircraft to Peru, transferred to a military base and handed over to the Peruvian government, which flew the artifacts to their final destination of Cusco, Peru. The priceless shipment required special handling, a specialized load...

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