Anything can be shipped if you meet the requirements. It just depends on who you ship through, too, from, what the material is, etc.
A real easy way to figure out how to ship anything would be to call your local shipping broker. They work with all types of shipping companies that specialize in all kind of things.
There are very good reasons why this is the case. When I worked for United, I spent almost two years in air freight as a load planner. Different types of aircraft can or can not ship certain types of material. You generally have three types of cargo areas in an aircraft. Non pressurized/non heated, pressurized, pressurized/heated. If you ever recovered your luggage after a long flight, and it felt ice cold to you, this is because it was not in a heated cargo area. If you had something expand a leak out of a container, it probably was not in a pressurized cargo area.
Also, there are certain types of material that cannot be loaded in certain cargo areas just because of the sensitive avionics, hydraulics, sensitive airframe components, etc.
But anything. literally, can be shipped. After all things obviously move from one place to another all over the country, someone is shipping them. Shipping also is different for companies than it is for individuals in some cases.
Scott
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