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For very sensitive freight (read NMR magnets) they already fix tiltmeters and accelerometers to the shipping crate, together with instructions to note excursions on the bill of lading when the item arrives. The superconducting wire in a modern magnet is exceedingly brittle. The various postal services do that, too, I remember seeing a documentary about the Royal Mail.



ITER had a lot of specific shipments they did from member nations where they basically put some concrete in a box with the full range of sensor hardware and sent it to the site, explicitly to make sure that they actually could move the components.




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