The market is still fairly small and has yet to be studied in detail, but Reynolds estimates potential shipments of "several million units" in the coming few years, and a market size that will reach $1 billion over the long term.
The potential shipments would come on top of the push to export coal and liquefied natural gas to rapidly industrializing Asian markets.
U.S. exporters do not get a rebate of the income taxes they pay, creating a disadvantage equal to as much as a 17% in every potential shipment from our shores.
In one corner of the plant sits a 1-ton pallet of shrink-wrapped lithium ready for shipment to a potential customer.
Still, the defense ministers' agreement in principle on a naval blockade to stop oil shipments put the alliance and Russia on a potential collision course.
In the Netherlands, a tire shipment from southern Florida, USA, was identified as a potential source of Ae. aegypti mosquitoes (1, 2 ).
A potential client might reject a sales pitch because of legitimate issues relating to cost, shipment time, product details.
These rules, which did not affect snakes directly, complicated shipments for products from certain reptiles -- crocodiles, alligators and caimans -- often causing border delays or seizures, a potential catastrophe for retailers expecting seasonal merchandise.
Discovering a potential water supply has obvious benefits for that scheme, not least providing astronauts with a potential reservoir that they can tap into rather than rely on shipments from Earth.
Even so, three-quarters of potential drug shipments identified by the task force are not interdicted, simply because there are not enough ships and aircraft available for the missions.
