freight

Issuing extra export quotas at this stage could send Chinese buyers back into the crude market and push up oil prices, although freight costs are now a big consideration for buyers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

But the Rhine plays an outsized role, carrying around two-thirds of Germany's inland waterway freight, said Puls.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

"The compression was primarily driven by a sharp spike in oil prices and freight rates amid Middle East geopolitical tensions," Xu said in its earnings reports.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

That would push up global freight, food, and industrial costs, ultimately "feeding inflation back into the global economy".

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Like eggshells it crushed the buildings of the North End yard of the city’s paving division....To the north it swirled and wiped out practically all of Boston’s only electric freight terminal.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

The duchess freights whatever products she releases with opinion and emotions, as we’ll soon see once her recently renamed, freshly launched brand As Ever gets up and running.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025

There’s something of a pattern here, one that freights that statement with irony.

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2023

The sheer cost of her course load freights every school day with expectation.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019

Rounders such as Johnson would hop freights if they had no money for a regular ticket.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2017

These dispatch agencies are not formed to compete with railroad companies in the transportation of freights, nor are they, in any measure, rivals or opponents of railroad companies.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

Dramatists are more cognizant than ever of the sociopolitical import of these contradictions and they’ve been chronicling the way this historically freighted baggage emerges in the drama of everyday life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

The assertion that Asian Americans and other nonwhite immigrants don’t “assimilate”—a freighted term, to be sure—is both easy and hard to refute.

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

Some elements of this year’s White House decor theme seem similarly freighted.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025

The latest numbers were slightly improved from a previous reading freighted by government shutdown disruptions, but barely.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

I was not just a spouse but the husband of a black woman, a freighted symbol of black love.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

Per the statement from the White House, "Bypassing regular air freighting routes will speed up the importation and distribution of formula and serve as an immediate support as manufacturers continue to ramp up production."

From Salon ● May 18, 2022

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