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• n  goods carried by a large vehicle
• n  the act of sending off something

• In May, an unusual shipment made its way from Kuwait to Idaho: 6,700 tons of radioactive sand.
• Fresh baby corn is unloaded and prepared for shipment to the UK in Kibwezi, Kenya.
• That shipment was blocked by German and French authorities.

• cargo
• lading
• freight
• load
• loading
• payload
• consignment
• dispatch
• despatch

News & Articles

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• Zepol's Data Shows May Imports Are Highest Month of the Year
  Zepol Corporation, the leading trade intelligence company, reports that U.S. import shipment volume for May, measured in TEUs, increased by 3% compared to April, but decreased 2.2% compared to May of last ...
  June 11, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• Marijuana concealed in pepper shipment from Mexico
  Federal authorities say they've seized more than 2,300 pounds of marijuana from a tractor-trailer hauling a shipment of peppers into southern Arizona.
  June 10, 2013 - FOX 10 Phoenix
• Five jailed after two tons of pot found in watermelon shipment
  Five men are behind bars after authorities discovered close to two tons of marijuana inside a shipment of watermelons in Brownsville.
  June 10, 2013 - KGBT 4 Rio Grande Valley

Quotes

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• Paul Byrd in FOXNews
  If that pharmacy did something wrong,Byrd said, "I did not know about it. I never received anything in a shipment that wasn't prescribed to me."
• Anthony Kennedy in Christian Science Monitor
  States have broad power to regulate liquor under Section 2 of the 21st Amendment,says Justice Anthony Kennedy in the majority opinion. "This power, however, does not allow states to ban, or severely limit, the direct shipment of...
• Gordon Brown in 660 News
  Because of what has happened in South Africa, where there is an arms shipment trying to get to Zimbabwe, we will promote proposals for an embargo on all arms to Zimbabwe,Brown told legislators during his weekly House of Commons question session.