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Shipment

What is a Shipment?

Shipment can either refer to the act of shipping goods by all modes of transports or simply to the overall quantity of goods transported (ex: the shipment arrived at its destination in Manchester).

Shipment refers to any item transported from one point to the other, either packed or directly loaded on a container/truck.

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