The agencies might, for example, allow only a limited number of foreign pharmacies or wholesalers to supply the drugs, inspect and monitor those suppliers closely, and require strict paper controls to follow the progress of all shipments.
As the company told me, this means a small business could now use the service to easily track the progress of their shipments and as their status changes from in-transit to delivered, the card will automatically change colors from yellow to green (or to red when the shipment is delayed).
That is progress of a sort.
Yet optimists see progress of a sort.
Reliability of a shipment the probability of delivering a shipment on time is a critical consideration in shipment planning.
During 2000 2005, a total of 4,067 shipment fractions of mammals were imported (a shipment fraction is the sum of all animals of a single species in a given shipment; a single shipment may contain several shipment fractions), totaling 246,772 individual mammals and representing 190 genera and 68 families.
He said Mr. Hussein, unaware that the progress reports were deceptive, awarded the scientists handsomely, with at least one of them receiving permission to travel abroad to broker a shipment of weapons parts.
A shipment of Kilimanjaro had just arrived.
A shipment of flour had arrived.
In quick succession, the United States failed to block a shipment of North Korean missiles to Yemen, North Korea said it was resuming production of weapons-grade plutonium, and satellite photographs showed huge progress in Iran's bomb program.
