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The list of the carrier’s most unlikely deliveries throughout this year. 163 vultures and James Bond also enter the boxes.
A DHL, being a carrier, it transports. What? We think about online purchases, such as cell phones or clothes, or documents and medicines.
But it doesn’t stop there. The German company itself sent ZAP a list of most unlikely shipments 2024. And they are really surprising.
The first is… the new chimpanzee house Chocolate. It continued in August this year, between Kenya and the United Kingdom. It is the new home of a famous chimpanzee, who more than 20 years ago was saved from the illegal bushmeat trade in Congo, where hunters killed her mother. He survived, but his hand and paw were paralyzed. After so many years of treatment in Kenya, he now has a permanent home. It was a high priority shipment for DHL, with a bespoke box filled with fruit and sweet potato snacks.
James Bond appears in the list. Also in August, more than 130 pieces from the “Bond in Motion” exhibition went to the “007 Action” exhibition. In other words, from the Republic Chega to Austria. 27 cars followed (including the iconic Aston Martin DB5), 8 motorbikes, suits, parachutes and even James Bond’s driver’s license. 22 trucks were used, including specialized closed car transporters with hydraulic lifts.
163 vultures they were transported in South Africa. It happened at the beginning of the year, in January, involving Cape vultures and African white-backed vultures. They left a rehabilitation center for a wildlife reserve. It was the longest vulture transport ever: more than 1,000 km, lasting another 18 hours. They are now in a safe environment.
In September, the instruments of the London Philharmonic Orchestraheading to Japan, where the group toured. 60 instruments, including double basses, cellos, timpani and a harp. During the entire transport it was necessary to guarantee a constant temperature, between 17 and 21 degrees, to prevent the wooden instruments from deforming or cracking.
Finally, DHL also transported… a cardiology clinic. He left Germany heading to El Salvador. It was the world’s first mobile “heart clinic” in February. The clinic provides life-saving surgeries for children with congenital heart problems in areas that do not have specialized facilities. The shipment was made in “11 containers of hope”. After two weeks of preparation, international surgeons began providing free treatments to the country’s young people. In May he left El Salvador and headed to Burundi, with the same objective.
