The first, from young vines, is sold to one of the big shippers.

If we don't pull ourselves together, we'll lose every big shipper in the state to the Phoenix-Durango.

The stock of Bergeson, the biggest shipper with the largest exposure in tankers used in the Gulf, was at 225 kroner before the invasion.

The container is a spectacularly successful American invention, and the homely ones that litter the African landscape are mostly the leavings of big Western shippers.

Evergreen Marine, a Taiwanese company and the world's biggest shipper, no longer calls at Kingston, a trade route that once accounted for 60 percent of its revenues.

Their wines turn up in the cafes and in the blends made in the cooperatives and by a handful of big shippers like Mr. Metaireau.

As a result, big shippers are taking in far less money, and several have become insolvent or fallen into financial trouble.

Some big shippers own no vines at all, most own a few and only a handful control large tracts.

Even some big shippers are trying to hold the line.

The shipping problem has come closest to being acute for China, which is the biggest shipper to West Coast ports, having overtaken Japan.