shipment

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Doing so could, in theory, cut off the nation's oil shipments, depriving the nation of much-needed revenue and forcing it to make greater concessions to the Americans in exchange for an end to hostilities.

From BBC

At the time, Super Micro’s compliance department had paused shipments of servers to an Asian company that, according to prosecutors, was used as a pass-through to hide the servers’ ultimate destination in China.

From The Wall Street Journal

The now-declassified CIA report cited a range of potential threats to crude-oil shipments through the strait, from sea mines to sabotage from tiny wooden craft known as dhows.

From The Wall Street Journal

The US military declared on Saturday it had damaged an Iranian bunker housing weapons threatening oil and gas shipments in the Strait of Hormuz, as thousands of Iranians marked Eid al-Fitr with prayer.

From Barron's

The first shipment arrived from Europe on Wednesday, while a flight took off from Miami on Friday and ships have been coming from Mexico.

From Barron's