Sentence examples for reduced shipments from inspiring English sources

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.

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%.

Excluding oil, imports fell 0.6percentt, reflecting reduced shipments of automobiles, televisions, videocassette recorders, clothing and toys.

Revenues fell 26% to $3.32 billion, mostly due to lower fuel surcharges and reduced shipments of automotive and building products.

On the retail side, a general decline in retail sales in November, based on seasonally adjusted figures, and a tempering of the previously meteoric growth in retail spending done over the Internet have reduced shipment volume.

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.

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.