The box I got my IC-9100 in had the following label outside:

so I took a look on the Lufthansa Cargo website with this result:

So – the information that the ICOM Germany guys only got it monday 2011/03/07 seems not to be the truth…
I guess they already had it at the middle/end of one week earlier. 😉
However – thank you ICOM for such a nice transceiver – even we needed to wait so long for it.