Testimonials
A METEORITE, ANTARCTICA AND A LITTLE DRY ICE.
Fact sheet
mode
Air + sea
Countries
Antarctica → Cape Town → Frankfurt → Brussels
Duration
2 days after Cape Town
Constraints
Dry ice, Starlink, hand delivery
A ULB researcher on assignment at the Princess Elisabeth Station needed to bring back meteorites collected in the field. Without breaking the cold chain. With WhatsApp as the means of communication.
The challenge
Getting scientific samples out of one of the most isolated places on the planet.
Maintaining a strictly sub-zero storage temperature throughout the journey. Coordinating a fragmented supply chain — ship, air freight, land delivery — across several continents. And doing so with an intermittent Starlink connection as the only link with the client on site.
In all honesty:
When working with small volumes and the highest standards, the difference lies not in the equipment but in human attention at every stage. That is what we strive for with every file — this one simply reminded us why.
How we went about it
We planned the journey in stages. At each stage, an identified supervisor and a temperature check.
On arrival in Brussels, one of our colleagues took charge of the most sensitive phase: collecting the parcel and handing it over in person to the researcher at ULB.
Princess Elisabeth Station
Cape Town
by ship, local dry ice
packaging, air freight.
Frankfurt
Brussels
