If by boat- you are correct. I do this stuff for a living (well, part of my job as material manager) for a global company. The other scenario is the product was STILL at the factory being made, but green-lighted for shipment.

Nokia should have said nothing about product shipping to their sell-in channel partners. Consumers are oblivious of this stage of the supply chain process.

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Actually- it is worse than that, since it was from factory, so still being made on factory floor and likely only some were boxed- not even actual outbound shipments to sell-in partners.

http://conversations.nokia.com/2009/...gins-shipping/