Ms. Serret said she was shipping about 100 boxes a week.

Apple shipped about the same number of its Macintosh computers - 743,000 - as in the quarter a year earlier.

"We ship about a million and a half pounds of lobster a year," he said.

Having a bag shipped one way costs about $2 a pound, or $70 to $80 for a typical large suitcase.

Chevron had hoped to be shipping about 120,000 barrels a day by now.

The company has said that it shipped about 600,000 computers worldwide during the first quarter of 1997.

Mexico shipped about 700 tons of food to Honduras.

The company has been shipping about four or five cases a wine each day for the last eight months, and nothing has come back, she said.

He said his firm had helped clients ship about a billion dollars' worth of projects offshore last year.

General Norbom is shipping us just about everyone and everything he's got, direct orders from the President himself.