freight

The boom has pushed ocean freight rates for cars to double their prepandemic levels, Enger said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

All it takes to understand how he’s been turning himself into a freight train is seeing his time in the 100 meters on the track team in the spring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Revenue growth was driven by market capacity constraints supporting the express and air freight units.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The conspiracy extends to freight, logistics and fuel companies on the U.S. side, authorities say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Later, as Florida lay in bed listening to the wail of the freight train passing through Boxton, she thought about the old lunatics and about going down a river in a boat.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

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

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

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019

The reference, to Noah’s ark, is explicit, but Walker freights it with ugly realities.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2016

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

In spite of this impost, and the heavy freights, amounting to nearly fifty per cent., the merchants are described as making enormous profits.

From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza

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

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

Projecting individual meaning onto our favorite shows is a natural result of an emotionally freighted medium.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

“Maybe I was naive,” he said in a halting voice freighted with emotion.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

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