A $2.6 million piece of equipment integral to future instruction at a new Alabama technical high school near Loxley might not arrive until after the school’s opening in August because of international conflicts affecting shipping in the Middle East.

A large, 26,000-pound industrial engineering simulation training platform is being shipped in one piece to the U.S., but its arrival is stalled because “international issues that are going on in the Red Sea,” according to Baldwin County School Systems CFO John Wilson.