freightage

Example Sentences

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Perhaps there’s no reason it would, and yet the absence of historical freightage stands in contrast to Farhadi’s Iranian films, in which the characters are manic with the tensions of an unfinished past.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2019

Railroad curves, bridges and tunnels between Jersey City and Whiting did not permit freightage of Stanolind's tank.

From Time Magazine Archive

The freightage or lighterage charge is $5 a case and boats usually make one trip a day with fifty cases a trip.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not a plausible source of raw materials: the freightage from Mars to Earth would be too expensive for many centuries to come.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Before a ship sails from port with its valuable cargo of goods and its priceless freightage of life, they do what is called "boxing the compass."

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus