As he explained it, the rail was part of a complicated conveyor system used to move a shipment, piece by piece, from freight cars on the High Line to trucks at ground level.
The company had an overall 7 percent increase in its revenue per freight piece because of heavier average shipment weight, higher prices and fuel surcharge increases.
Now, he has four stores, including White, where he receives weekly deliveries of furniture by Knoll and Steelcase from banks and offices that are closing, and hefty shipments of vintage pieces from Denmark, some with designer labels and others generic.
Botti began working at the studio when he was 11, polishing marble statues and packing pieces for shipment.
Their first major shipment of supplies includes 130,000 pieces of winter clothing along with hand-crank radios, flashlights, hygiene supplies, portable lights and miscellaneous medical supplies.
In Wichita, Kan., the Transportation Security Administration awaits shipment of a 600-pound piece of steel.
There are two to three F.D.A. inspectors assigned to police the flood of illegal drug shipments among the nearly 1.3 million pieces of foreign mail that flow through J.F.K. every day.
The instructions enclosed with the original Trivial Pursuit board game advise you to keep the plastic trees that the game pieces are attached to in shipment because "they make excellent swizzle sticks".
Cultural images of black America are tweaked, pulled and twisted like Silly Putty in "The Shipment," a subversive, seriously funny new theater piece by the adventurous playwright Young Jean Lee at the Kitchen.
To avoid the expense and difficulty of shipping large radioactive components from ITER site to Parties, the main functions of the TBM pre-PIE HCF Hot Cell Facilitiess) will most probably to be performed, by remote handling, optical and other easy non-destructive examinations, extract specimen cassettes, cut the TBM into smaller, more manageable pieces, and prepare these pieces for shipment.
"I'm adjusting to the adjustments," said Annie Wright, the designer's daughter, who received one of the first shipments last month and put her vintage Pinch pieces away.
