One morning we stopped at a settlement called Santo Antônio do Iça to take on a cargo of rubber and offload a consignment of toilet paper and soft drinks.
Thanks to the immediate response of the government and UNICEF, which mobilized resources and flew a consignment of measles vaccine to DPR Korea within 14 days of the government's declaration of a nationwide measles outbreak, millions of children under 15 have now been protected against measles.
Rather than just wield a stamp, the customs men recently stopped the import and distribution of a consignment of copies of the Financial Times newspaper.
You can stop off at the Channel Islands and take onboard a consignment of orphans who will afterwards be thrown into the giant beak-like mouths of the blasphemous undersea deities that you all worship.
When James and his friend Bruce received a consignment of pistols and a sawed-off shotgun to dispose of because they had "bodies attached," they traded them to a Roxbury gang for its fighting dogs, so that they could foster them.
Reports of ivory seizures are a regular occurrence in Mombasa, Kenya's largest port, where just this month large shipments of ivory have been discovered, in one case disguised as a haul of sun-dried fish, and in another as a consignment of 240 bags of groundnuts.
But most of all, they say, they are prepared to invest capital and take risks: in buying a consignment of rubbish to sell on to the state authorities who are the ultimate buyers, in buying lorries, and, naturally, in "buying" local police and officials.But for many, these risks are too big to take with hard-earned money.
In Denmark the main method of trafficking illicit firearms into the country is via heavy goods vehicles, primarily from the western Balkans, and in Sweden last year police intercepted a consignment of automatic weapons being transported in a box placed on a bus travelling from a town in Bosnia to Malmö.
Separately, the Ukrainian border service said it had engaged in a fire-fight with a minibus carrying weapons that had tried to cross from Russia in the early hours of Tuesday morning, seizing a consignment of weapons and injuring one man.
British Red Cross arranged for a consignment of blankets and hot water bottles to be ferried across to Arran and distributed to residents.
