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The vast majority of hazardous materials shipped by rail tank car every year arrive safely and without incident, and railroads generally have an outstanding record in moving shipments of hazardous materials safely. – Federal Railroad Administration	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are problems, but none of the traders are talking about any suspension of shipments. Ports use alternative energy sources. – Agriculture Minister Mykola Solsky	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
Russia strikes the port city of Odesa less than 24 hours after signing an agreement to allow shipments of agricultural exports, the Kremlin continues to weaponize food. Russia must be held to account. – Ukraine Bridget Brink	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Identifying close relatives indicates that poachers are likely going back to the same populations repeatedly -- year after year -- and tusks are then acquired and smuggled out of Central Africa on container ships by the same criminal network, this criminal strategy makes it much harder for authorities to track and seize these shipments because of the immense pressure they are under to move large volumes of containers quickly through ports. – Samuel Wasser	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Testing sites, additional medical staff, and continued shipments of therapeutics from the federal government will help us continue to save lives and mitigate the spread of COVID-19. – Greg Abbott	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Detecting COVID-19 and preventing COVID-related hospitalizations are critical to our fight against this virus, while the Biden administration has cut supplies of monoclonal antibody treatments and testing kits when they are needed most, the State of Texas is urging the federal government to step up in this fight and provide the resources necessary to help protect Texans. Testing sites, additional medical staff, and continued shipments of therapeutics from the federal government will help us continue to save lives and mitigate the spread of COVID-19. – Greg Abbott	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Conspicuous weakness in exports...reflected a rapid decrease in car shipments due to production cuts, forced by semiconductors and other parts’ shortage. – Kenta Maruyama	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Whenever that happened, those two seizures always were shipped out of the same port, close in time, and all of the ivory -- when we looked at the origin -- was highly in overlap, which suggests it was the same transnational criminal organization( TCO) moving both shipments. – Sam Wasser	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The biggest challenge right now is the unknown. We do not have information on when we can expect to receive shipments and the supply amounts, which can make setting the dates and times more difficult, we also want to be sensitive to the fact that these are children in school, so we need to make sure there is minimum loss of instruction time. Our goal is to make the whole process convenient, easy and accessible for families. – Christina Johns	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Squaring this nominal increase in shipments with the run-up in producer prices for private capital goods takes away some of the optimism. – Tim Quinlan	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
There’s still a gap between orders and shipments as producers ramp up capacity and adjust to increasing demand, the increase in the orders backlog is especially bad in core capital goods, suggesting accelerating capital spending. – Will Compernolle	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
For the last three weeks, table grapes have been experiencing lengthy delays at port. There are about 400 or 500 containers that are taking between five and 10 days longer than normal to be cleared, the fruit is in cold storage so it’s not rotting but shipments are being moved from port to port to try and avoid delays and Australian farmers will be liable for that costs. – Jeff Scott	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The fruit is in cold storage so it’s not rotting but shipments are being moved from port to port to try and avoid delays and Australian farmers will be liable for that costs. – Jeff Scott	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I'm getting calls from farmers and ranchers across the state reporting that the interruptions in electricity and natural gas are having a devastating effect on their operations, grocery stores are already unable to get shipments of dairy products. Store shelves are already empty. We're looking at a food supply chain problem like we've never seen before, even with Covid-19. – Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The first half of the year is usually a seasonal down-cycle, but this year is different. It will continue to swing to profit, as iPhone 12 sales are expected to increase panel shipments by 1.5 to two times the amount a year earlier. – Kim Kwang-jin	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Shipments get bumped all the time because of aircraft capacity. – Mike Stopay	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
While we are not specifically tracking FEMA shipments of the PPE at the center level, we can provide a few instances where we have had issues with the PPE received. – Lori Mayer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Too often, the only signs of FEMA's much-hyped promise of PPE shipments — an allotment of gowns, gloves, masks and goggles based on staffing size of the provider — are scattershot delivery with varying amounts of rag-tag supplies. – Katie Smith	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There are some traditional retailers in a lot of trouble and, as you know, some have started to go bankrupt, some customers ask us to delay shipments and we have found extra storage and warehouse facilities for them. – Soren Skou	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
However, when it comes time to reopen, the Brewers Association is ready to stand behind state guilds and members as they fight to make coronavirus-prompted regulate easements a permanent fixture of the industry. Themost impactfulalleviationhas beendirect-to-consumer delivery, with some statesfast-trackingpermit approvals and othersreleasing the requirementaltogether.In an April survey ofitsmembers, the Brewers Association found that over 50 percent of members found that the most helpful policy changes centered around market access, meaninggreater to-go, deliveryand direct-to-consumer rights. Eight states allowed the direct shipment of beer and winepre-coronavirus : Delaware, Massachusetts, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont and Virginia.The remaining states only alloweddirect wine shipments. We dont agree with that, because you know, weve seenhow the wine industry has been able to do thatforover 20 years, and theyve achieved near-universal direct to consumer shipping rights around the country. – Bob Pease	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We were able to bend the curve and purchase adequate supplies to meet current needs and amid these extraordinary circumstances, contracts have been continuously re-evaluated, some shipments we'll be accepting to handle the ongoing public health crisis and prepare for future emergencies and other agreements will be modified or canceled with money refunded to the state. – Rich Azzopardi	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Weve entered into a number of contracts and as we are getting closer to the date when shipments are supposed to come in, theyre getting canceled or theyre getting delayed, weve been told theyre going first to the federal government. Earlier in the week, Gretchen Whitmer complained that Michigan wasnt receiving clear directives and guidance from the federal government on how to handle the crisis. The coronavirus outbreak has sparked tension between President Trump. Frankly, a patchwork strategy of each state doing what President Trump can, were going to do it if we need to, but it would be nice to have a national strategy. – Gretchen Whitmer	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I would argue it is not really comparing Apples to apples, unit shipments do not paint the entire picture. – Vincent Thielke	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is a lack of outgoing transfers, so in return there is a lack of inflow of goods, and suppliers are now starting to hold shipments that have not been paid for. – Hani Bohsali	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

The vast majority of hazardous materials shipped by rail tank car every year arrive safely and without incident, and railroads generally have an outstanding record in moving shipments of hazardous materials safely.

– Federal Railroad Administration

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are problems, but none of the traders are talking about any suspension of shipments. Ports use alternative energy sources.

– Agriculture Minister Mykola Solsky

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

Russia strikes the port city of Odesa less than 24 hours after signing an agreement to allow shipments of agricultural exports, the Kremlin continues to weaponize food. Russia must be held to account.

– Ukraine Bridget Brink

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Identifying close relatives indicates that poachers are likely going back to the same populations repeatedly -- year after year -- and tusks are then acquired and smuggled out of Central Africa on container ships by the same criminal network, this criminal strategy makes it much harder for authorities to track and seize these shipments because of the immense pressure they are under to move large volumes of containers quickly through ports.

– Samuel Wasser

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Testing sites, additional medical staff, and continued shipments of therapeutics from the federal government will help us continue to save lives and mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

– Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Detecting COVID-19 and preventing COVID-related hospitalizations are critical to our fight against this virus, while the Biden administration has cut supplies of monoclonal antibody treatments and testing kits when they are needed most, the State of Texas is urging the federal government to step up in this fight and provide the resources necessary to help protect Texans. Testing sites, additional medical staff, and continued shipments of therapeutics from the federal government will help us continue to save lives and mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

– Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Conspicuous weakness in exports...reflected a rapid decrease in car shipments due to production cuts, forced by semiconductors and other parts’ shortage.

– Kenta Maruyama

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Whenever that happened, those two seizures always were shipped out of the same port, close in time, and all of the ivory -- when we looked at the origin -- was highly in overlap, which suggests it was the same transnational criminal organization( TCO) moving both shipments.

– Sam Wasser

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The biggest challenge right now is the unknown. We do not have information on when we can expect to receive shipments and the supply amounts, which can make setting the dates and times more difficult, we also want to be sensitive to the fact that these are children in school, so we need to make sure there is minimum loss of instruction time. Our goal is to make the whole process convenient, easy and accessible for families.

– Christina Johns

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Squaring this nominal increase in shipments with the run-up in producer prices for private capital goods takes away some of the optimism.

– Tim Quinlan

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

There’s still a gap between orders and shipments as producers ramp up capacity and adjust to increasing demand, the increase in the orders backlog is especially bad in core capital goods, suggesting accelerating capital spending.

– Will Compernolle

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

For the last three weeks, table grapes have been experiencing lengthy delays at port. There are about 400 or 500 containers that are taking between five and 10 days longer than normal to be cleared, the fruit is in cold storage so it’s not rotting but shipments are being moved from port to port to try and avoid delays and Australian farmers will be liable for that costs.

– Jeff Scott

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The fruit is in cold storage so it’s not rotting but shipments are being moved from port to port to try and avoid delays and Australian farmers will be liable for that costs.

– Jeff Scott

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I'm getting calls from farmers and ranchers across the state reporting that the interruptions in electricity and natural gas are having a devastating effect on their operations, grocery stores are already unable to get shipments of dairy products. Store shelves are already empty. We're looking at a food supply chain problem like we've never seen before, even with Covid-19.

– Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The first half of the year is usually a seasonal down-cycle, but this year is different. It will continue to swing to profit, as iPhone 12 sales are expected to increase panel shipments by 1.5 to two times the amount a year earlier.

– Kim Kwang-jin

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Shipments get bumped all the time because of aircraft capacity.

– Mike Stopay

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

While we are not specifically tracking FEMA shipments of the PPE at the center level, we can provide a few instances where we have had issues with the PPE received.

– Lori Mayer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Too often, the only signs of FEMA's much-hyped promise of PPE shipments — an allotment of gowns, gloves, masks and goggles based on staffing size of the provider — are scattershot delivery with varying amounts of rag-tag supplies.

– Katie Smith

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are some traditional retailers in a lot of trouble and, as you know, some have started to go bankrupt, some customers ask us to delay shipments and we have found extra storage and warehouse facilities for them.

– Soren Skou

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

However, when it comes time to reopen, the Brewers Association is ready to stand behind state guilds and members as they fight to make coronavirus-prompted regulate easements a permanent fixture of the industry. Themost impactfulalleviationhas beendirect-to-consumer delivery, with some statesfast-trackingpermit approvals and othersreleasing the requirementaltogether.In an April survey ofitsmembers, the Brewers Association found that over 50 percent of members found that the most helpful policy changes centered around market access, meaninggreater to-go, deliveryand direct-to-consumer rights. Eight states allowed the direct shipment of beer and winepre-coronavirus : Delaware, Massachusetts, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont and Virginia.The remaining states only alloweddirect wine shipments. We dont agree with that, because you know, weve seenhow the wine industry has been able to do thatforover 20 years, and theyve achieved near-universal direct to consumer shipping rights around the country.

– Bob Pease

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We were able to bend the curve and purchase adequate supplies to meet current needs and amid these extraordinary circumstances, contracts have been continuously re-evaluated, some shipments we'll be accepting to handle the ongoing public health crisis and prepare for future emergencies and other agreements will be modified or canceled with money refunded to the state.

– Rich Azzopardi

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Weve entered into a number of contracts and as we are getting closer to the date when shipments are supposed to come in, theyre getting canceled or theyre getting delayed, weve been told theyre going first to the federal government. Earlier in the week, Gretchen Whitmer complained that Michigan wasnt receiving clear directives and guidance from the federal government on how to handle the crisis. The coronavirus outbreak has sparked tension between President Trump. Frankly, a patchwork strategy of each state doing what President Trump can, were going to do it if we need to, but it would be nice to have a national strategy.

– Gretchen Whitmer

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I would argue it is not really comparing Apples to apples, unit shipments do not paint the entire picture.

– Vincent Thielke

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There is a lack of outgoing transfers, so in return there is a lack of inflow of goods, and suppliers are now starting to hold shipments that have not been paid for.

– Hani Bohsali

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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