Parrot transport from the United States to Europe
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The G.K Airfreight team confirmed that this was by no means a routine case. Even though the Monk Parakeet only measures about 30 centimetres in size, the transit flight from the United States to Europe is actually a very conscientious undertaking and includes some extensive examinations...

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Butterfly cocoons come once a week
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The butterfly is not quite a butterfly yet when this journey is made, as he travels as cocoon. 5000 butterfly cocoons weigh around 40 kilograms and one could say they travel in their own personal transport boxes to Germany.Once a month a load of about 1000 butterfly cocoons travel from.....

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Most succesful dog-sled season
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In none of his earlier years had he been so successful. Since Alaska and Germany are the grounds where Michael Tetzners’ flying sled dogs, having been plagued by the dog virus in 1987, primarily come to play, the huge logistic problem of an arduous animal air transport needs to be.....

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Journey in a hammock
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Every three to four weeks, snakes from Miami are shipped in such transport boxes to Frankfurt. The snakes are not randomly stocked at the bottom of the box, but are independently mounted in matching bags in the box – as though they were travelling in a hammock...

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Sensitive passengers
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Within the European Union and especially in the cooler months of the year very different temperature gradients can occur. Both monkey passengers are collected at their homes in the Dublin Zoo and transported directly from their special Fraport transport crates located at the aircraft...

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Red panda transport to London
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His journey began at half past twelve at night by stepping into his spacious transport box and then proceed on to Frankfurt by special vehicle accommodated by G.K. Airfreight Service. This was the young red panda bears’ first long trip from Gorlitz zoo, which took place in an air-conditioned animal.....

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A service with potential
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G.K. Airfreight relies on a "pick-up service," now offered for the first time this year in Belgium. Over forty years of experience in the transportation of all kinds of animals with a multi lingual staff at their disposal and a large and growing list of existing contacts all come in.....

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Police rely on German Shepherds
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Closely related to this ongoing success, at least where G.K. Airfreight Service is concerned is the twenty-year collaboration with the Canadian police, also known as Mounties. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have employed the German Shepherd as a working dog, which has apparently already proven itself as very fortuitous, in.....

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