The company believes the discovery could mean a longer shelf life for fast-spoiling vegetables like lettuce, which are often shipped long distances.

A common limit for low cost per unit weight commodities is saturating the regional market, thus having to ship product uneconomical distances.

But the doctors said it would be possible to ship corneas long distances.

Millions of chickens are shipped huge distances every day.

This makes it uneconomical to ship long distances, and it tends to lose its nitrogen value fairly quickly.

Cotton was a staple that could be stored for long periods and shipped long distances, unlike most agricultural products.

Most of our higher quality proteins, for example Brazilian soya, are shipped vast distances from countries where the sustainability debate is now raging.

The more power that is shipped long distances in the new deregulated markets, the more power those lines must carry.

The advent of a truly global economy means that goods and services are being shipped over longer distances.

When new aircraft built overseas did become available, they would be shipped long distances in wartime conditions, with consequent delays and losses.