freight

While freight costs react immediately, the peak price impact on grocery shelves takes 12 to 18 months to fully filter through production and distribution markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

There was a strong quarter-on-quarter improvement on freight rates, while volumes declined by 1% on year, which is a similar development to its Gemini shipping network alliance partner Maersk, the bank says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

However, it cautioned that freight rates are volatile and that given current persistent geopolitical challenges, the forecast is subject to a considerable degree of uncertainty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Container shipping operators have benefited from higher freight rates this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

As he turned, it seemed that everything in the freight yard—horses, wagons, automobiles, railroad cars—was coming right at him on a wave of molasses.

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

Here the fact is acknowledged that freights can be transported over railroads for one and one-fourth cents per ton per mile.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

Maybe this is why I have long treated “Ask a Manager” as both advice column and anthropological expedition behind the cubicle wall, where completely ordinary behaviors can become freighted with professional meaning.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

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

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

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

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

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