Panner was then stationed in Los Angeles, California, where he worked on the docks coordinating shipments and where he met his first wife Agnes.

The family was transferred to New York City where Panner coordinated shipments to Europe after the end of World War II.

Other law-enforcement officials said Mr. Ruiz, a 32-year-old resident of Bogota, Colombia, was one of a handful of traffickers who coordinate shipments of cocaine worldwide.

The leasing agent for Bentonville Plaza, Tommy L. Van Zandt, hastened to explain that the concierge would not be "someone to get you dinner reservations" but rather someone to coordinate shipments and deliveries.

Nigerians employ couriers and coordinate shipments from Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Fifteen high-ranking members of what the authorities said was a $300-million-a-year drug ring were also arrested, and warrants were issued for 13 others who coordinated shipments and kept track of the huge amounts of cash the ring collected, F.B.I. officials said.

The image of Pablo Escobar lounging on his prison water bed while coordinating shipments of tons of cocaine to the United States on his cellular telephone is not quite accurate, say lawyers who visited the trafficker in his hillside jail here.

For years, she worked long days tethered to a phone and computer keyboard, coordinating loads, shipments and deliveries.

The Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT) has played a key role in the planning of the seed vault and is coordinating shipments of seed samples to the Vault in conjunction with the Nordic Genetic Resource Center.

Hefting crates around, keeping track of them, and coordinating shipments didn't require great expertise.