Set up 14 months ago, WWRE focuses on such things as common standards for weights, measures, shipment terms and sharing sensitive information.
However, the figures are not definitive; variations in how the two companies measure shipments, and differences in how companies report data to them, mean that IDC and Gartner both reckon that Lenovo, the largest PC company, shipped 15.7m PCs - even though Gartner's figure should include the Yoga while IDC's excludes them.
A measure of shipments of equipment, which is used for the gross domestic product report, rose 1.3percentthethirdhincreaseease in four months.
Whether measured by shipments of cable and DSL modems, or by global or United States subscribers, cable access remains ahead, according to data from the Cahners In-Stat Group, a research house.
In the first phrase of the program, the Customs Service, which has since been merged into the Homeland Security Department, opened negotiations with foreign governments representing the world's 20 largest cargo ports, as measured by shipments to the United States, to permit American inspectors to be stationed permanently in those ports.
The treatment boxes were shipped overnight in refrigerated packaging from the study pharmacist to the clinical centers; thermometers measured trans-shipment temperatures.
As I noted in my prior blog post, one implication of this sort of unbundling is that measures of goods shipments between American cities will understate the amount of goods trade that is actually intra-American (since a percentage of the value of Apple products consumed in America should count).But that's still a somewhat dissatisfying narrative.
"Japanese Shipment of Nuclear Fuel Raises Security Fears" (news article, July 5) does not mention that after extensive review, Japan, Britain and the United States endorsed the protective measures for this shipment.
Hutchinson said drug traffickers are taking extraordinary measures to hide coke shipments aboard cargo vessels docking at the Miami River.
As a precautionary measure, we are halting all Soylent Bar purchases and shipments and are advising our customers to discard any remaining bars in their possession".
