Sentence examples for reduce shipments from inspiring English sources

As global food prices rise and exporters reduce shipments of commodities, countries that rely on imported grain are panicking.

It also refused to say when it first knew it would have to reduce shipments, though it said it had announced the decrease in "a swift manner".

Perhaps most tellingly, the economic adviser to President Vladimir V. Putin came out strongly against acceding to requests by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to reduce shipments.

The Japanese Foreign Ministry signaled on Wednesday that it was close to an agreement with Washington to further reduce shipments of oil from Iran, which have already declined about 20 percent since the beginning of the year.

The deal imposed a very high base price for gas of $450 per thousand cubic meters; a strict payment regime, which following any default could force Ukraine to pay for gas in advance; very high take-or-pay clauses that forced Ukraine to pay for gas it could not possibly use; and no ship-or-pay obligations on Gazprom (hence Gazprom, without penalty, could reduce shipments to Ukraine).

Steelmaker FerroChina defaulted on its debt Thursday, following on the heels of an agreement this week by the four biggest state steelmakers to cut production and requests from Chinese mills for an Australian iron ore supplier to reduce shipments.

Or a manufacturing process engineer can evaluate real-time data on the plant floor to identify trends and data to improve yield and reduce shipment delivery times.

As supplies tightened, the major oil companies kept supplying their own brand-name service stations but reduced shipments to independent stations.

But while revenues per available seat rose by 5.9 percent from a year earlier, cargo revenues continued to slide, falling by 6.3 percent despite a 3.5 percent drop in capacity, as the economic slowdown reduced shipments.

That could be done only by reducing shipments to the United States.In Africa, China's much larger investments in oil and mining have brought accusations from some quarters that it has created neo-colonial enclaves.

But it's not like things are much better anywhere else! Reduced shipments of coffee beans, and aeroplanes, and pretty much everything that people buy or sell produced a year-over-year dip in trucking in the month of December of 14.1%.