Not so if you're in an industry tasked with, say, shipping cars or oil from one hemisphere to another.

The penalty, which has yet to take effect, would bar Chrysler from shipping cars or trucks to the state for 45 days.

Auto makers record revenues and earn profits when they ship cars from factories to dealers.

This insulated the company from the effects of a strong yen in the mid-1990's, which made it expensive to ship cars from Japan.

Building the plant there will save untold millions in freight charges to ship cars across the Pacific.

The Japanese police have broken up several theft rings shipping cars to Russia.

Shipping new cars in from Germany is also extremely bad news for the environment.

The company has been shipping cars to European customers since mid-2009.

For two years, the Japanese auto makers have shipped fewer cars to the United States than they are allowed to send.

G.M. insists that none of the foreign assembly plants being built will be used to ship cars back to the United States.