What is "shipments"

Usage examples of "shipments".

But no shipments of Veritas had come down from the Platform that afternoon.

When all the shipments had been removed and stored in the low holding warehouse for later distribution, and their totals entered into the computer systems, Troy would hand the double-checked manifests to Cren, who would then determine an equivalent amount of supplies to be sent back up to the Platform in exchange: water, canisters of air, craftwork, and hydroponically grown food or actual agricultural produce.

At the mag-lev station in the industrial section, several containers were just now being loaded by automated cargo systems that transferred shipments from one landholding onto a spur bound for other villages.

After his previous mistake of the transposed shipments, his boss would be utterly unforgiving.

Outside in separate storage barns were further shipments, bulky items brought in from one holding and marked for commercial distribution to the highest bidders.

Mining shipments, raw lumber, packaged food, fresh meats and fish, bins of grain, everything came to First Landing for distribution.

He focused his attention instead on the large elevator car, at the packaged cargo strewn about, canisters of purified oxygen, tanks of water, shipments of grain and fresh vegetables.

Dieter Pan had not liked to slow down any of the shipments, but Dokken had insisted.

Some of the massive shipments stockpiled for the next trip up had already been brought to the concrete apron.

Freights to California--Silver Bricks--Under Ground Mines--Timber Supports--A Visit to the Mines--The Caved Mines--Total of Shipments in 1863 CHAPTER LIII.

It was from there that more than half the daily shipments of silver bricks came.

Every ship that sails from San Francisco carries away a heavy freight of Chinese corpses--or did, at least, until the legislature, with an ingenious refinement of Christian cruelty, forbade the shipments, as a neat underhanded way of deterring Chinese immigration.

United States would not allow shipments of food or medicine to Iraq or to Cuba, the result being the deaths of tens of thousands of children.

After mastering his own job, which took about two weeks, he had begun sniffing around the household goods warehouses, looking for what he knew had to be there--namely, a ring of thieves who pilfered the shipments bound for Army posts all over the world.

The trick was to make the guys who did the actual stealing pay him for top cover, such as protection from the inspectors, adjustments to shipping invoices, prompt payment for the claims that inevitably came back from the military people at the new destination, judicious assignment of work crews to particular shipments, all in return for a piece of the action.