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

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

Avoiding tariffs and ocean freight saved money, but domestic shipping brought the total to $1,230.

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

“But I was just carrying a little more . . . freight than this old crate could handle.”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

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

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

Those who are in the interest of these monopolists talk about cheap freights; they argue that railroads can transport freights much cheaper than it can be done over ordinary highways.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

TORONTO—Over the past 17 months, as President Trump has freighted Canada’s economy with several rounds of punishing tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney has often repeated the guiding maxim for his negotiations with the U.S.:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

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

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

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

Although he no longer ran a freighting business full-time, he still moved some goods and welcomed my assistance.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac