Sentence examples for rather than shipping from inspiring English sources
Rather than shipping expensive reels of film around, venues now get small hard drives or stream films directly on to servers.
It had a tendency to bruise, which meant that, rather than shipping bananas directly on the stalk, Standard Fruit had to box them in elaborate new packing houses.
For one, many big American manufacturers, from General Motors to General Electric, often make goods in the countries where they are sold rather than shipping the products abroad.
The company has many efforts under way, including reducing excess inventory and putting multiple-item orders into a single box, rather than shipping them from separate warehouses.
Gunns says that the A$1.7 billion ($1.5 billion) mill, the biggest private investment in Tasmania, will boost the state's struggling economy by turning chips into paper pulp at home, rather than shipping them off raw.
But the companies are a bit like the farmer who harvests the grain and stores it in a silo rather than shipping it straight to market on the expectation that prices will be higher later.
as jobs in manufacturing, many overseas, and jobs shipping products around the globe are replaced by companies setting up 3-D fabrication labs in stores to print objects rather than ship them.
A Colorado Springs girls softball team sent its bats, balls, and uniforms ahead to a tournament this weekend in a car driven by one of the mothers, rather than ship them on United.
Of course, a book can't really be banned anymore; in this case, a curious reader can order Colting's book at www.amazon.com/uk (where things are mostly the same with a few charming exceptions: look, your shopping cart is a basket, the price is in pounds, and they "dispatch" your items rather than ship them!).
As such, it makes sense for Pella to manufacture its products in the U.S. rather than ship them here from Asia.
Many things can be printed up for digital instruction in a neighbourhood print shop, and carried home under your arm, rather than shipped in container loads around the world.
