Brazilian distributor reports missing RTX 5090 shipment at São Paulo airport
Brazilian hardware distributor Oderço has reported the disappearance of two pallets of ZOTAC GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards at São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport. The company estimates the missing shipment at R$2.5 million (approximately $470,000 USD) at cost. The GPUs reportedly arrived at the airport but could not be located afterward.
Oderço Matos, president of the Maringá-based distributor, published a video on October 16 explaining the situation. According to Matos, his company has operated for 38 years and has imported hardware since 2008. During that time, it had never lost an imported shipment until this incident.
The executive claims that the company has repeatedly requested information about the missing GPUs without receiving an explanation. He also questioned the lack of security camera recordings documenting the movement of the shipment. Matos said the company decided to make the case public after failing to obtain answers.
“Two pallets don’t disappear on their own inside an international airport.”
— Oderço Matos (translation)
Exact number of missing RTX 5090 cards remains unknown
The distributor has not confirmed how many graphics cards were stored on the two pallets or which ZOTAC models were included. Brazilian reports suggest that individual RTX 5090 cards currently retail for R$33,000 to R$39,000 ($6,200 to $7,300) in the country. However, the R$2.5 million figure represents the distributor’s acquisition cost rather than the potential retail value of the missing hardware.
Some Brasilian media had tried to learn something from the airport operator, but they had not responded. The Brazilian Federal Police and Federal Revenue Service have also not issued public explanations. No theft has been officially confirmed, and the distributor has not provided an arrival date or shipment tracking details.
The incident comes as NVIDIA faces questions about the availability of its GeForce RTX 5090. The company recently confirmed that the GPU has not been discontinued but acknowledged supply constraints. The RTX 5090 is already difficult to find at reasonable prices, and apparently, locating two entire pallets of them is not much easier.
Source: Oderco