Microsoft sues DHL over derailed train with Xbox consoles

Posted on Wednesday, October 15 2008 @ 10:05 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
PC World writes Microsoft is suing DHL for allegedly losing 21,600 Xbox consoles because of a train derailment in Texas. Microsoft is seeking more than $2 million in damages from DHL for two containers of Xbox consoles that sustained damage in the accident:
In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle, Microsoft said it is seeking more than US$2 million in damages from DHL for two containers of Xbox consoles that sustained "impact damage, wetting, pilfering and shortage" after a derailment near Duke, Texas.

The Xboxes were en route from a Microsoft office in McAllen, Texas, to Long Beach, California, for eventual delivery to Hong Kong at the time of the loss, which occurred on Oct. 13, 2007, according to court papers. Flextronics Industrial in Hong Kong was the intended recipient.

Microsoft claims that DHL has refused to compensate it for the loss, even though the delivery service "negligently breached its duties as a common carrier, handler, bailee, warehouseman, agent, or in other capabilities," according to the court papers.


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