air cargo

Customs and Border Protection officers at LAX inspected an outbound air cargo shipment declared as “Assorted Dog Shampoos,” which contained the 12 brightly colored bottles.

Air cargo takes two to three days from Asia, he said, while sea shipping takes three to seven weeks.

Most ominously, last year Russian intelligence operatives began planting incendiary devices in air cargo shipments, a move that so alarmed the Biden administration that it warned the Kremlin that it was risking an all-out war.

Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists found 37 giant live beetles — valued at $1,480 — stashed inside an air cargo shipment that had arrived in California from Japan, authorities said this week.

At an airfield in Texas, Todd Graetz is hoping to use that concept to disrupt the market for air cargo.