freight

Early cracks are already appearing in categories with short supply chains, where perishable goods can’t wait out freight swings in cold storage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

The average per-mile spot-market rate to move dry-van truckload freight in October, the highest average since February 2022, even as fuel costs eased slightly, according to DAT Freight & Analytics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 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

So I hitched a ride on a freight train that was heading south.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

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

Well, you're ahead of time fifteen minutes, so just sit down and behave yourself till I get those freights over yonder untangled.

From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman

The assertion that Asian Americans and other nonwhite immigrants don’t “assimilate”—a freighted term, to be sure—is both easy and hard to refute.

From Slate ● May 26, 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

Just because Lena was nice in physics class doesn’t mean she should be freighted with this, or would know what to do.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

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

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

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

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