The phrase "avoid shipping" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one wants to suggest not to send or deliver items, often in logistics or e-commerce discussions.
Example: "To minimize costs, we should avoid shipping during peak seasons."
Alternatives: "refrain from shipping" or "skip shipping.".
The project is intended to avoid shipping Siberian natural gas through former Soviet and East bloc states on its way to more lucrative markets in Western Europe.
It is intended to avoid shipping Siberian natural gas through former Soviet and East bloc states on its way to more lucrative markets in Western Europe.
The 101st Airborne is flying about 30 of its Apache gunships back to Fort Campbell on C-17 cargo planes, but most of the division's 250 helicopters will be flown from its headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, to Kuwait, taken apart, wrapped in plastic to avoid shipping damage and put on the vessels.
Any time it can avoid shipping something, it makes more money (proportionately) than if it sold you the item itself.
In fact, you ought to tell everyone what you're working on so that you 1) find out about the others and 2) get feedback to avoid shipping a clunker.
Where possible, questionnaire data could be inputted on site to avoid shipping risks and costs associated with processing census material at another site (census data was couriered to the Data Management and Analysis Centre at the University of Adelaide).
And that's if a shark doesn't attack it or an oceanliner doesn't smack into it — the boat is radar-visible and painted to be highly visible, and it avoids shipping lanes, Penny noted.
Mr. Gallagher was swimming only about 70 feet off Rikers Island -- to avoid ship and barge traffic -- when he was stopped.
The International Whaling Commission is working to remedy some of these problems, like researching pollution issues and rerouting shipping lanes in areas with heavy whale populations to avoid ship strikes, Mr. Brockington said.
North Atlantic right whales frequent one of the world's busiest shipping areas, and they do not avoid ships the way other whales do, for reasons that scientists are trying to determine.
While banks have aimed to avoid ship seizures, the worsening conditions and growing frustration will lead to more vessel arrests, industry sources say.
