Partly that is because shipment volume is down.
International tobacco earnings rose 4.5percentt as shipment volume climbed 5.4percentt.
United Parcel Service and the FedEx Corporation both said today that they had cut their profit forecasts because of softness in consumers' holiday spending and a reduction in shipment volume.
"The impact on Samsung is limited as shipment volume of Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Nexus are quite small," Lee Sun-tan, analystyst at NH Investment & Securities, told Reuters.
Shipment volume is given on weight basis and categorized by day; additional information includes total to date shipments for this and the prior year, as well as final shipments for the prior year.
On the retail side, a general decline in retail sales in November, based on seasonally adjusted figures, and a tempering of the previously meteoric growth in retail spending done over the Internet have reduced shipment volume.
Other series include U.S. per capita disappearance (consumption), U.S. trade--by product, country (1978-2012), market shipment volume, U.S. arrivals in major cities (through 1998), world production and trade by country, usual planting and harvesting dates, and major varieties planted.
It now handles a fifth of trans-shipment volume in the region and is set to double its capacity by 2012.A new privately managed port and industrial free zone at the canal's southern end, meanwhile, has already become an important industrial hub.
Last quarter, Altria's cigarette shipment volume declined 4.2% while the cigarette industry overall declined 5.5%.
For the first time since 2007 shipment volume dropped below 65 million units.
