Sentence examples for major shipment from inspiring English sources

Chennai's port is a major shipment point.

In one major shipment, 15 pinnaces carrying manuscripts left Timbuktu together.

Russia stepped up its military support for the Northern Alliance, and the first major shipment of new war matériel had just been handed over.

Police had learned from informants that a major shipment — two tons of marijuana from Paraguay — had arrived in Mangueira the day before.

The killing in Venezuela comes amid claims that it has become a major shipment point and haven for Colombian drug traffickers.

The most important ports are Maracaibo (a major shipment centre for crude oil), Puerto Cabello, and La Guaira (the port of Caracas).

In addition to passengers, major cargo shipments included seasonal shipments of herring, as well as lumber from the surrounding areas.

Major shipments of coal from New Orleans were also delayed.

Seizures of major shipments of ivory to Asian markets have doubled since 2009.

While major shipments of supplies remained blocked, the local staffs of international agencies struggled to coordinate their work and to distribute the limited emergency stocks available in the country.

The decision reflected President Park Geun-hye's determination not to succumb to what she called North Korea's tactic of using provocations and pressure to extract concessions — a move the impoverished country was accused of using successfully in the past to secure major shipments of aid.