Shipment example sentences

In Bombay, Parsis like Dinshaw Petit and Jamsetjee Nusserwanjee Tata who built huge industrial empires in India, accumulated their initial wealth partly from exports to China, and partly from raw cotton shipments to England.The mate's receipt indicates the name of the vessel, berth, date of shipment, description of packages, marks and numbers, condition of the cargo at the time of receipt on board the ship, etc.The import order contains information about the price, quantity size, grade and quality of goods ordered and the instructions relating to packing, shipping, ports of shipment and destination, delivery schedule, insurance and mode of payment.Under the preshipment finance, finance is provided to an exporter for financing the purchase, processing, manufacturing or packaging of goods for export purpose.In case the exporter requires funds, he/she can avail of pre-shipment finance from a bank.Finance is also needed after the shipment of the goods because it may take sometime to receive payment from the importers.Shipment of advice contains invoice number, bill of lading/airways bill number and date, name of the vessel with date, the port of export, description of goods and quantity, and the date of sailing of the vessel.The programme picked up on their plan to return to the office late one night to steal a large shipment of electronics.The shipment advice is a document that the exporter sends to the importer informing him that the shipment of goods has been made.Having obtained the preshipment finance from the bank, the exporter proceeds to get the goods ready as per the specifications of the importer.The pre-shipment inspection report is required to be submitted along with other export documents at the time of exports.They are termed as pre-shipment finance or packaging credit and postshipment finance.A shipment advice contains information about the shipment of goods.After loading the goods on the vessel, the overseas supplier dispatches the shipment advice to the importer.In the case of direct exporting/importing, a firm itself approaches the overseas buyers/ suppliers and looks after all the formalities related to exporting/ importing activities including those related to shipment and financing of goods and services.