Container Arrives

We shipped a container from Gulfport Mississippi back in late March. It was suppose to arrive in Luanshya, Zambia, on May 16th... well, you guessed it - it never showed! There were always some sort of "paper work" problems :-) Thankfully the container has arrived and we were able to unpack - it was only 13 weeks late!! Guess this is how it works when living in Africa. Unfortunately it appears the container had a few items missing and a few items were damaged intransit. The customs and immigration inspectors feel it part of their occupation to steal what is not theirs - it is called corruption. The following pictures show us unloading the container in Luanshya with Suzanne - the friendly customs agent from Ndola. Suzanne took some "samples" off the container. I asked her if she was doing her job, or shopping... she could only laugh. The funny part, she was looking for specific size shoes and shirts for her "sample"... nice!

















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