User blog comment:General Esdeath/RWBY Episode 1/@comment-70.31.9.179-20130707201227/@comment-10390252-20130707202533

Given that Adam was planning to 'set charges', the objective was certainly to destroy. I don't think that the destination of the shipment mattered to him. What mattered to him was to hurt the Schnee Corporation, because I think that he and Blake used to be slaves at one of their facilities.