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freight

[frayt] / freɪt /


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Hapag-Lloyd cautioned that the outlook is highly uncertain due to volatile freight rates and persistent geopolitical challenges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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 continuing conflict in the Middle East has added another pain point for Shein, disrupting shipping disruptions and driving up freight costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Diesel primarily fuels commercial vehicles in the US – such as freight trucks, farm machinery, and cargo trains – which are used for transporting goods and construction.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

He heard the engines puffing and snorting by the roundhouse and the crash of freight cars being assembled.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The script freights these qualities with guilt, which Cormier ably juggles in direr moments.

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2024

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

Whereas The Bachelor freights every sidelong glance with portent, DWTS’s stumbles and heartbreaks are all edited to make the stakes feel as low as possible.

From Slate ● May 24, 2016

It started off in good style, operating two passenger express trains, an accommodation and two freights each day in each direction.

From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford

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 fruit is pre-cooled for five hours before being packed and transported in refrigerated vans and then stored in cold rooms before being air freighted.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

From there, the council freighted the policy with stipulations that made it difficult to actually satisfy.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

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

Barringer believed that the crater had been formed by a ten-million-ton meteor, heavily freighted with iron and nickel, and it was his confident expectation that he would make a fortune digging it out.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The heatwave lowered levels in the Rhine River - a major shipping route - limiting the amount cargo ships can transport and raising freighting costs.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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

What’s fallen off a little is the stories freighting that message.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

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

My uncle had worked with him over the years when Big Schoolboy ran a freighting business, carrying goods back and forth by horse-drawn wagon between his home in Chinle and Gallup.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac




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