freight
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Rising insurance costs and tightness in the supply of vessels means it’s not just wet freight costs that are booming.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
It has taken the biggest hit after the war with Iran sent gas prices soaring, hurting the beleaguered industry that hauls 70% of all freight in America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The shipment went through a freight hub at East Midlands Airport on the way, allowing NCA and Border Force to intercept on Friday.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Leaving the oil stranded is still economically worse than taking on the freight cost and selling oil at thinner margins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
While the freight trains continued to rumble through town a dozen times a day, little in Clarkston looked familiar to the people who’d spent their lives there.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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There’s something of a pattern here, one that freights that statement with irony.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2023
Although it initially freights our empathy scale to favor Gauthier's side, the story humanizes all parties as it progresses.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2022
At night, the carriage can rock while negotiating a bend and freights enter your dreams as their cargo thrums past but these minor intrusions authenticate a true railway experience.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2020
The sheer cost of her course load freights every school day with expectation.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
We are aware that the idea is commonly entertained that the people receive an equivalent for these railroad grants in the increased facilities for travel and transportation of freights.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
From there, the council freighted the policy with stipulations that made it difficult to actually satisfy.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
But this is a story freighted with symbolism and one which has drawn outsized international attention because of its connection to that other world religion - football.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026
Projecting individual meaning onto our favorite shows is a natural result of an emotionally freighted medium.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025
That complicated human-rights situation is freighted with Saudi Arabia’s history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Hie word was freighted with such seductiveness that Kaede picked up the goblet without hesitation.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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And, he said, growth in freighting has slowed in the years since the pandemic boost, with warehouses seeing higher job vacancy rates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
Shannon frames each scene in his modest film with care, freighting many of his shots through doors and windows with meaning.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2023
One of the islands' main salmon exporters - Hiddenfjord - is also doing its bit, by ceasing the air freighting of its fresh fish.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2021
The company turned briefly to air freighting products to meet demand, but at five or six times the cost of sea freight, it cut into the company’s profits.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2021
Besides, freighting the timber to northern mills would keep his railroad cars puffing.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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