'shipping unit' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is commonly used in logistics and supply chain management to refer to a standard unit of measurement for shipping goods. Example: The company's standard shipping unit for international orders is a 40-foot container.
When you've got one company (RIM) making, boxing, and shipping unit after unit of a brand new handset to two major carriers at the same time, stuff like this is bound to happen.
The European travel company TUI canceled the initial offering of its Hapag-Lloyd shipping unit because of adverse market conditions.
Quantum memories are installed in Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (TEU) containers, the standard shipping unit with an internal volume of 40 m3.
Friction between Global Crossing's bank lenders and bondholders have prompted some investors to speculate that the company would be liquidated, with assets like its fiber optic networks and its shipping unit sold at auction.
The units include holdings in the logistics sector and about a third of its shipping unit, the Hapag-Lloyd Group, whish is to be placed on the stock market in the second half of 2004.
FEDEX CORP., Memphis, the largest overnight-delivery company, said it would buy a shipping unit, Tower Group International, Buffalo, from McGraw-Hill Cos., New York, publisher of Business Week magazine and textbooks, for an undisclosed price and create a new division, FedEx Trade Networks Inc., to help businesses with international shipping.
Originally, the plan was for Microsoft to begin shipping units worldwide starting on September 1".
The startup, which launched last year, is currently shipping units mainly to smaller independent coffee shops.
The company only started shipping units to customers in countries outside the United States in late May.
At this point they intend to begin shipping units in Q4 of 2016, but that could change.
The company still intends to start shipping units to preorder customers on May 13 and selling them in stores on May 19.
