shipment

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The company also continues to see gains in weight per shipment, which is “often an early indicator of improving underlying demand, particularly from industrial customers,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

George Shaw, senior insight analyst at Kpler, said the shipment arriving this week was loaded at a refinery in the Red Sea and did not pass the Strait of Hormuz.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Herrero said the shipment was just "another donation" by Cuba's Russian ally, but he doubted that Moscow wanted to subsidize the Cuban economy in the long term.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

According to Interfax, the Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin is carrying a "humanitarian shipment" of 100,000 tonnes of crude oil.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Later that same day, another large shipment of crab-eating monkeys arrived from Ferlite Farms.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston