Goodyear's shipments for January and February were unchanged from the period a year earlier, below the 8percentt increase of all shipments in North America, the company said.
A week ago, IDC increased its 2013 forecast for the worldwide tablet market to 190.9 million, up from its previous forecast of 11percentt between 2013 and 2016, because of a predicted increase in shipments of smaller, lower-priced devices.
"Couple that with the increase in shipments of the classics, and it's a sign that regardless of the talk, when retailers are actually placing orders, they're doing so with a very classic mind-set," Mr. Green said.
Only in the third quarter did the increase in shipments of LCD TVs make up for the decline in other kinds of TVs.
Wednesday's fiery train derailment in Lynchburg, Va., is yet another disturbing reminder of the dangers of increasing shipments of particularly explosive Bakken crude oil from North Dakota and western Canada.
During all of 2000, 3.9 million servers were shipped worldwide, an increase of 14percentt over shipments in 1999, according to Dataquest, a unit of Gartner Group.
But even after the derailment, Philadelphia "has not issued new plans, directives, or protocols in response to the increase of crude oil shipments," wrote city director of Emergency Management Samantha Phillips in an email to ProPublica.
The pulp inventories of paper makers are increasing while shipments of paper have leveled off, according to government figures.
However, a thicker tank increases vehicle weight and thus leads to an increase in the number of shipments required to transport the same amount of product and consequently greater exposure to accidents.
A sustained increase in shipments and orders of machinery, fabricated metals, electronic equipment and other goods would offer a clue that businesses were increasing production and replacing their depleted inventories.
This small gain reflected increases in shipments of farm products, including animal feed, soybeans, meat and poultry, and greater exports of industrial machinery, computer chips, telecommunications equipment and computer accessories.
