freight
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The boom has pushed ocean freight rates for cars to double their prepandemic levels, Enger said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Christoph Seitz, global vice president of finished vehicles for DP World, a Dubai-based freight forwarder, said some Western automakers were skeptical of putting cars in boxes, but Chinese automakers didn’t flinch.
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
The conspiracy extends to freight, logistics and fuel companies on the U.S. side, authorities say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Twenty-year-old Walter Merrithew was at the building nearest the wharf called Number 3 freight house, helping one of the wagon drivers load goods for delivery.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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
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
They all halted as they reached the stationary freights.
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman
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
After years apart, the band feels lighter and less freighted with expectation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2025
But the Nigerien connection remained significant and freighted with a degree of political and perhaps even cultural weight.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
Weariness and sorrow freighted each page of his letter.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
Environmental advocates have long warned about the dangers of trains freighting hazardous chemicals.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
What’s fallen off a little is the stories freighting that message.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 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
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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