“Since mid-March, Apple Inc. and its logistics partners have imported 188 ocean containers of a product type never before declared on its shipping manifests,” ImportGenius.com reports.
“With iPhones currently out of stock at many Apple stores, including its flagship outlets in New York City, rumors abound that the company is winnowing stocks in preparation for a new 3G version of the phone,” ImportGenius.com reports.
“Last month Citi analysts Richard Gardner and Yeechang Lee predicted that Apple would announce the new 3G iPhone at its June 9th World Developers Conference in San Francisco. Meanwhile, Dvice.com reports that AT&T has told its employees that they cannot take vacation time from June 15 to July 12 to enable full staffing for an ‘exciting Summer Promotional Launch,’” ImportGenius.com reports.
“Now data from U.S. customs records now seem to confirm this prediction, according to ImportGenius.com. By analyzing thousands of U.S. customs records for Apple Computer, employees of the search engine for container shipment data identified a major spike in imports generated by a new product type,” ImportGenius.com reports.
“On March 19 Quanta delivered 20 ocean containers of merchandise, described on the Bills of Lading as ‘electric computers,’ to Apple, Inc. Neither Apple, Quanta, nor any other company has ever used this product description for any shipments to the U.S… The initial shipments were followed on March 27, April 28, May 6 and May 17 with an additional 44 containers—each containing an estimated 40,000 units of the new phone,” ImportGenius.com reports.
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