The Federal Express plane, he said, was carrying 145,000 pounds of cargo from Asia, mostly electronics, computer parts and machinery from commercial shippers.

He said it would make the town he grew up in a more attractive option for commercial shippers, yachters and tourists.

In practice, ordinary commercial shippers like FedEx and UPS have the necessary licenses.

However, by 1849, the rapids of the St. Lawrence had been tamed by a series of locks, and commercial shippers were quick to switch to this more direct route.

Wheeler was a commercial shipper and owned tug boats.

But they defend the surge in rates as inevitable because the military deployment has sharply increased the worldwide demand for shipping and because the Pentagon makes some special demands that commercial shippers do not.

This price is double what some commercial shippers now pay.

Address it to Vorkosigan House, and send it by commercial shipper.

Unless you're moving your home though, you'll probably never be faced with an oversized load dilemma - most of these loads come from commercial shippers.

A formal notice advising commercial shippers of the naval action has now been issued, a Pentagon spokesman said.