As the shipment could not be released to Sohel in May due to paperwork problems, Miah had even tried to have the cocaine shipped back to Uruguay, marked as the port of origin in the cargo documents, or to India.
Temperature data loggers were included within shipments to document appropriate temperature in transit.
It also made its first investment last week: Mimeo.com, a sort of Internet Kinko's that plans to offer express shipment of copied documents; Draper has not yet decided whether to invest in Sticky Networks.
When Arizona ordered its own shipment in September, documents show, the state worked closely with Customs and Food and Drug Administration officials to prevent the kind of delays that plagued Georgia, and made sure that the port of entry was Phoenix, where its own broker could help.
Police obtained a warrant to search the facility and found more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition, dozens of high-capacity magazines and more than 50 rifles, most of which were "wrapped for shipment," according to documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
The agency also proposed a $100,000 fine after a January 1998 assessment at a Nashville airport found that Northwest had failed to obtain cargo security documents and had not screened a cargo shipment.
The new system will require diamond shipments to carry documents tracking their origin all the way back to where they were pulled from the ground.
In 1638, eight years after John Winthrop's famed "City Upon a Hill" sermon, the first documented shipment of enslaved Africans arrived.
The equipment company said in court documents that shipment delays could cost the company millions of dollars.
During those meetings they promised to buy a laundry list of high-tech military weapons, offering to pay for part of the shipment in heroin, the documents said.
