Research Fund 24/04 :: Afonso Conde & Miguel Borges
May 9, 2024
Research Fund 24/04 :: Cláudia Francisco
May 23, 2024
With all our adventures and Research Fund awards, we hardly had any time to share some of our real work…
…but there’s always time to share a quick photo of 23 XL boxes headed to our friends from Sea World Abu Dhabi, who just received 300 Mugil cephalus and Mullus surmuletus from us. Zero losses during our 36 hours transit, as per usual.
And you know how we praise the wonderful folks who work with us on a regular basis?… Well, this time we wish we had some laxative to put on the coffee mug from a certain ground handling agent moron who had our awesome freight-forwarder change the Airwaybill and Customs forms because our 23 boxes x 47 kg = 1081 kg in reality weighed 1112 kg on the scale.
The irony is that the boxes were on 4 wooden pallets, traditionally considered to weigh 15 kg each, so the ‘real’ weight was 1112 kg – 4 x 15 kg = 1052 kg.
In other words, our man Nuno Alexandre went to bed at 3h A.M. over a diference of… 29 kg… in a 1081 kg order.
Well done, genius! Hope you feel good about yourself!…
#freak
PS – you’ll never guess what happened 2 days after this post went online?… The big boss man from the ground handling company read this and called to apologise, promising it’ll never happen again. How about that? The internet actually works! :p
