In March 2004, Orex became the first ever cargo airline carrying humanitarian aid during the intervention of an international peacekeeping force in Haiti after the 2004 coup d'état, which followed political unrest and rebellions. On behalf of the United Nations, 25-ton of food, medicine and two ambulances were flown from Geneva, Switzerland to Haiti via Shannon, Ireland and Gander, Canada. As the rebels did not permit the freighter aircraft A300F to land at the destination airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, it was diverted to an airport near Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.