It is a matter of great concern to Barbados that in attempting to justify those highly dangerous shipments, some have pointed to the safety record of such shipments.

Both shipments arrived between 25 March and 10 April 2005.

Organized criminal groups involved in the clandestine movement of arms shipments from source to recipient have consistently circumvented customs and police authorities of various States responsible for interdicting illegal arms shipments.

As of now, the tracking of SDS shipments is not fully automated.

Some of the shipments originated in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

For example, shipments are bar coded for end use inventory management purposes only.

Shipments do not carry bar codes to facilitate dispatch and tracking during transit.

Customs records on seized illegal shipments do not necessarily reveal the full picture.

Recent arms shipments have strengthened the military capacity of opposition elements inside Somalia.

Poland continues to improve its national potential to prevent smuggling and interdict illegal shipments.

In other countries, only suspicious shipments are referred to laboratories in or outside customs.

The Monitoring Group uncovered 34 individual arms shipments or violations of the arms embargo.

Included among the types of arms in the shipments were anti aircraft guns and mines.

These can include attacks against facilities that contain radiological materials or shipments of such substances.

Arms shipments using a trans shipment point before routing to Somalia are likely to occur.

Provide details of any weapons shipments interdicted, seized and or investigated since the year 2002.

Nevertheless, customs records on illegal shipments do not necessarily reveal the full dimension of such trade.

Where laboratories are nearby, customs officers could take suspicious shipments directly there without using identifiers themselves.

As to volume contracts regulating shipments exempted from the scope of application of the draft instrument (such as, for instance, when charter parties were used for the individual shipments), they would equally remain outside the scope of application of the draft instrument.

The members of the network have confessed to smuggling two earlier shipments prior to the one seized.

The members of the network have confessed to smuggling two earlier shipments prior to the one seized.

Specific concern was expressed about both the environmental and proliferation risks of plutonium reprocessing and nuclear materials shipments.

This would effectively create an additional filter for illegal imports by detecting them before the shipments are made.

Some of the shipments involved arms and ammunition coming from outside the region and the surrounding Gulf States.

It was also suggested that the words any shipment should be substituted for the word shipments to emphasize that the provision applied to the terms that regulated each of the shipments, effected under a volume contract, that fell under the scope of application of the draft instrument.

The exchange of information about shipments and lists of authorized importers between exporting and importing countries is also important.

During the current mandate, the Monitoring Group investigated violations of the arms embargo in terms of shipments of arms into Somalia that went directly to the intended recipients and shipments of arms that went into and through the Bakaaraha arms market, especially the Irtogte market located in Mogadishu.

The extent to which armed groups receive logistical support and arms shipments across the border must thus be further investigated.

In addition, should action be delayed to only after an accident or a terrorist attack on one of those shipments?

The use of bar coding or equivalent automatic identification of shipments would improve dispatch, tracking and receipt of SDS at missions.

The Monitoring Group learned that arms shipments were sent from the Government of Ethiopia directly to TFG militia forces in Western Somalia.

All release orders issued for shipments from SDS and United Nations reserve stocks will incorporate clear priority and realistic required delivery dates.

It is important to note that most of the shipments consisted of quantities of numerous types of arms versus a single weapon.

It is clear that information and intelligence are important as customs authorities rely on them to conduct physical inspections of transit shipments.

In the autumn of 1944, the darkest days of World War II, German troops blockaded Western Holland, turning away all shipments of food.

It was suggested that the draft instrument would not apply to volume contracts unless the draft instrument would apply to individual shipments thereunder.

The Firearms Act does not provide for the sharing of information with foreign counterparts to enable cooperation in preventing illegal shipments of firearms.

E commerce is most prominent in manufacturing shipments, followed by wholesale trade (accounting for 21.1 and 13.1 per cent of total sales, respectively).

We continue to urge the parties concerned to refrain from the use of the Caribbean Sea as a transit route for such shipments.

However, the Panel independently verified that six arms shipments had been delivered to Liberia between June and August 2002 (S 2003 498, para.

Following that meeting and on 3 May 2005, N3 lorries entered Ethiopia from the Bakool region of Somalia to pick up shipments of arms.

It was urged that a stronger application of the precautionary principle be made, which would therefore proscribe such shipments in accordance with SIDS' goals.

With an increasing number of arms embargo violations, the trend has continued to rely less on air transport to ferry the illegal arms shipments.

Conversely, the terms or stipulations of the volume contract that did not regulate individual shipments remained outside the scope of application of the draft instrument.

The Monitoring Group uncovered 34 individual arms shipments or violations of the arms embargo from February 2004 to the time of writing the present report.