I am not at all high and I had the same question. Since no one actually answered I looked it up. It can make financial sense because it is shipped in such volume. The actual shipping is in cargo containers that have freezer or refrigeration equipment, and can keep products frozen or cold on ships, trains, and trucks. The single carton of ice cream from Europe bought near the US factory could possibly be explained by supply chain stuff or how they have decided to split flavors for more efficient manufacturing. It might be more efficient in the long run to manufacture 10 flavors in this plant and 5 flavors in that plant and ship them where they need to go rather than all 15 flavors in each plant.