The word "shipments" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to goods that are sent or delivered, typically in large quantities. For example, "The company is expecting a shipment of new computers next week."
Research firms IDC and Strategy analytics both now place Xiaomi in overall third place for smartphone shipments in the third quarter of 2014, more than tripling shipments year-on-year overtaking South Korea's LG by between 0.4m and 1.2m smartphones.
The deal outlined cash payments for 720,000 tons of fuel oil to Syria in monthly shipments, the paper said: Iraq offered Syria a discount of 50% below the market price, plus a $5 discount per metric ton, according to the contract.
"In the longer term, shipments are expected to reach much higher volumes, with units rising to nearly 39m units in 2018," it notes.
IHS reckons that smartwatch shipments will hit 268,000 in 2013, of which a large number will be from the Californian company Pebble, which has shipped more than 100,000 units and is on sale in a number of US retail chains, and Sony, which has launched its second-generation smartwatch.
From selling its first smartphone in 2011, Xiaomi became the world's third largest smartphone manufacturer in October with 6% of global shipments according to data from research firm Strategy Analytics and IDC.
Xiaomi shipped 17.3m smartphones in the third quarter, 5.3% of the 327.6m total global shipments, according to data from IDC.
The European Union, which has a "zero tolerance" approach to genetically modified crops, said through its consumer protection office Friday that if any shipments tested positive, they would not be sold.
Time was, he said, when soldiers would help cartel members load up drug shipments "for a beer and a woman".
Its loss would not only deny the government a significant part of its armoury but potentially open the way for foreign governments to fly in shipments to support the rebels.
Some newspaper reports have ascribed this to the legalisation of the drug in some US states, but local producers say it has more to do with years of falling prices and greater vigilance by the army, which complicates the transport of large shipments.
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