1. Also driving prices lower is fading concern that a truckers strike in Colombia will disrupt coffee shipments. 2. Bureaucratic wrangling could disrupt shipments of the precious metals, again, said Green. 3. Freezing German and Dutch waterways disrupted fuel shipments from refineries. 4. In October, an international trade union group threatened to disrupt crude oil shipments from Nigeria in retaliation for the imprisonment of two Nigerian oil union officials. 5. Its rail division posted lower-than-expected earnings because severe winter weather disrupted rail shipments. 6. Oil prices rose on concern the Iraqi dispute could lead to a confrontation that might disrupt oil shipments from the region. 7. Previous shipments had been disrupted by anti-nuclear protesters but this time the police encountered fewer demonstrators than expected. 8. Record cold winter weather on the Prairies and record snow in the mountains in British Columbia have disrupted grain shipments to the West Coast for several months. 9. Still, beef supplies are plentiful, limiting concern that cold, snowy weather will limit animal weight gain or disrupt shipments of market-ready cattle. 10. The early Afghan winter looms and the Taliban are sure to continue their practice of trying to disrupt food shipments to its own people. |