Sentence examples for big shipments from inspiring English sources

Big shipments are hidden on fishing boats and freighters, then broken up into smaller consignments that are sent by fast boats up the coast to Morocco or Spain.

At the time there was a general exodus to Asia in search of lower costs, recalls Mark Coopersmith, the firm's chief executive. ET Water Systems, which builds sophisticated irrigation devices for businesses, quickly started losing money, not least because it had so much capital tied up in big shipments of goods which took weeks to cross the oceans.

WaystoCap offers a business-to-business marketplace for big shipments of consumer goods across Africa.

It turns out the furniture maker would buy a whole year's supply of wood when the price was good but didn't have the space or the manpower to unload the big shipments.

"Our Finnish flatware-salesman friend is expecting a big shipment".

It also stumbled when its first big shipment of batteries to Fisker proved defective and needed to be recalled.

"One day in 1984, my grandfather had a big shipment coming into the port in Benghazi," Osama told me.

It was Halloween weekend and we had just received a big shipment of food and booze, but everything was rendered useless after the hurricane".

A satirical website has accidentally broken a real news story – by revealing that America offered Israel "a nice, big shipment" of weapons to try and salve its anger at the Iran nuclear deal.

One police officer texted to say that a big shipment of heroin from Balochistan had been intercepted, another to say that two gangsters had been arrested and a cache of weapons seized in a separate raid.

In another mail he warned the president that "a tested source who met with leaders of groups in Baba Amr today said a big shipment of weapons coming from Libya will arrive to the shores of one of the neighbouring states within three days to be smuggled to Syria".