You have 1000 kilograms of clean, fresh water in a single IBC container in Sydney at the Opera house. You will be paid 1 million dollars if you can deliver it to Los Angeles McArthur Park within 3 weeks, or 21 days, or 504 hours. You can split the water into as many containers as you want, and the IBC doesn’t need to make it to LA, just the water inside. If you deliver 2000 bottles each containing 500ml of undiluted, clean, fresh water, or like, 99% of it to account for evaporation and some spillage, that counts as a win. You can assume that any partial water deliveries that remain in Sydney or arrive in LA won’t be stolen in your absence so you don’t need to hire guards. There are no consequences for failing, but if you do fail or succeed, any money you spend on the project, you don’t get refunded. Normal consequences for breaking laws apply.
How do you do it, or do you even bother trying?
I’d call GAC or Pentagon (No, not that pentagon) and book the shipping. They’re the ones we use at work for these things, as well as larger stuff, and they’re pretty fast and costs a lot less that that kind of money.
While they organize the physical shipping, I’d call my logistical superhero of a coworker so we can get all the customs stuff out of the way and processed before arrival.
Once we had to ship four 20ft containers around the world fast, and we ended up booking (via GAC, iirc) an An124. I’ve been promised that next time we do so, I get to go along.