Olympus says sales have exceeded expectations, with initial shipments quickly selling out.
But other than the clever bit of hardware engineering around the actual Lightning tip itself, Wurtz says the emphasis with Dock+ was always on making something as uncomplicated as possible, without extra ports or features, in order to simplify the manufacturing process and ensure the ability to ramp up to high volume shipments quickly.
One problem is that the airlines rely heavily on revenue from such shipments, which are time-sensitive, and no one can search all the cargo quickly.
The department's insistence that the shipments begin quickly was supported on Wednesday by the Kaiser-Hill Company, a private contractor that is cleaning up the Rocky Flats site for the department.
For example, according to a communication to the organization's members, the National Grain and Feed Association has demanded that the company reveal the names of the more than 2,000 farmers growing StarLink crops, information that would allow the industry to track potentially contaminated shipments more quickly.
This allows businesses to make their own shipping arrangements without the aid of a freight broker, get instant price quotes, and track their shipments more quickly.
The construction of the Blyth and Tyne Railway from 1849 allowed coal shipments to quickly expand, reaching 200,000 tons per annum.
Although these shipments were quickly detected by a joint effort of the FDA and US Customs and Border Protection, these products would easily have gone unnoticed in developing countries, where insufficient resources and infrastructure hamper the ability to monitor and preserve drug quality.
"With the rise in global smartphone shipments, demand has quickly spread from developed markets to emerging markets," the report said.
Worldwide shipments have risen quickly — to 11 million in 2010, from 5 million in 2009, she said, with 15 million predicted for 2011.
But some industry officials have suggested that China might be willing to issue the quotas for 2011 early, possibly in November, so as to allow shipments to resume quickly early in January.
