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Elsewhere, lower water volumes in the Missouri and Mississippi River basins threaten to disrupt coal shipments by barge, a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission report warned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026

The US Department of Justice has previously flagged Singapore as a key transit hub to conceal illegal shipments to China.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2026

Exports of computers more than quadrupled from a year earlier in June, while shipments of wireless communication devices, including smartphones, jumped 51%, ministry data showed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026

Kaneva also said that oil shipments through the strait started up earlier than the bank had expected, because the U.S. facilitated dark-of-night tanker transports before a formal agreement was announced.

From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026

What is less known is that at the close of the Southern African conflict, this same general had been discreetly retired, and he had then entered business, dealing in shipments from Southern Africa.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro