So some smugglers are routing their charges further south, to Egypt, and the beaches of Alexandria and Damietta, or else flying them to Algiers and Tripoli for onward shipment through the central Mediterranean.
In a nod to news stories that have emerged from the country gamers can also ride Chicago Bulls basketballs, in homage to Denis Rodman, and fly giant rabbits based on reports that the North Korean embassy requested a shipment from a breeder in Germany in 2007.
The 26m shipment was 30% more than Taiwanese rival HTC, once the world's biggest Android smartphone maker, shipped in the whole of 2013.
Sometimes trucks loaded with internet receivers, Thurayas [satellite phones] and communications equipment were lost if the driver was detained by security forces or killed while making the shipment.
But Fairfax was unaware the FBI was investigating Rogers for sports memorabilia fraud at the time of the deal – and the Little Rock warehouse was raided after the precious shipment from Australia and New Zealand arrived.
A few times the shipment fell into the hands of the security forces, or the vehicle would be hit by a rocket or get ambushed.
In 1940 he wrote to the Anatomy Institute: "I regret to say that through lack of cases I was unable to pack most of the specimens or to arrange for shipment… [I] packed 13 cases of skeletons and long bones leaving unpacked enough skeletons and long bones for about 12 cases… I dumped all the incomplete skeletons except long bones into the creek… as you appear to only require complete skeletons".
"It's got nothing to do with the arms shipment," snapped a PA airport official.
The winery made its first shipment to China last year, ahead of January sales for the Chinese New Year holiday.Mr Koegelenberg has had to keep up with China's changing tastes: for example, sales of expensive wines for "gifting" to business partners have fallen off under the edicts of President Xi Jinping.
He oversaw every stage in heroin-making, from paying farmers who grew poppies on the hilly plots of the Triangle to the transport of raw gum, in huge sacks, on the backs of hundreds of mules treading narrow jungle paths to the markets and refineries on the border with Thailand, to shipment overseas.
The shipment to Hizbullah of a balance-tipping new weapon, a skirmish on the Lebanese or increasingly volatile Gaza border any number of miscalculations could ignite a conflagration.From peace process to war processAll of this should give new urgency to Arab-Israeli peacemaking.
