Overview
- Servicios Logísticos Asociados (SLA) SRL coordinated the transfer, which its operations director Ignacio Nieto described as the company’s first move of aquatic mammals on this scale.
- The route ran by conditioned trucks from Mar del Plata to Ezeiza with 20‑minute monitoring stops, then continued on a Qatar Airways direct flight prepared for the animals’ needs.
- Each dolphin traveled in a three‑meter crate partially filled with water using a suspended sling, with vaseline and foam padding applied under continuous veterinary supervision.
- Municipal and provincial reports issued after earlier complaints found no malnutrition or neglect at the facility and attributed the dark pool water to the seawater pumping system.
- The Dolphin Company owned the closed aquarium, had initially signaled a regional destination, and local media report three Argentine caregivers will remain in Hurghada for at least three months to support acclimation.