Sentence examples similar to risk shipment from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday moved to tighten air cargo security, banning large toner and ink cartridges from passenger flights and demanding new inspections on "high risk" shipments headed to the United States on all-cargo flights.

This high-risk shipment will test the promise to European consumers that the timber they buy is legally harvested.

17 per cent of these high-risk shipments weren't examined at all.

Exporters can still make shipments using paper forms, which allow some high-risk shipments to evade scrutiny.

Such problems create patterns in which high-risk shipments aren't screened, potentially allowing nefarious exporters to game the system.

Following the audit, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has promised to draw up plans "to reduce the proportion of targeted high-risk shipments [that are] not examined".

Of the 17 per cent of high-risk shipments that weren't examined, the CBSA blamed a third of these cases on receiving risk assessments "after the shipments had already left or been loaded on planes and ships".

But aides on Capitol Hill said they expected the Obama administration to demand physical inspection of certain "high risk" cargo carried on all-cargo flights, particularly shipments coming from nations where terror groups are known to operate, like Yemen.

FOR many online retailers, the holiday shopping season ended early last week, as consumers were generally reluctant to pay for expedited shipping or to risk getting shipments after Christmas.

As Russian border agents using dogs have become more adept at catching small-time traffickers, smugglers have been compelled to risk large shipments, he said.

The complicated process put them at risk of missing shipment times, which in turn upset customers.