freight

The Iran war adds to stresses, raising freight costs and hitting aluminum supplies due to drone attacks in the Middle East.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Rising insurance costs and tightness in the supply of vessels means it’s not just wet freight costs that are booming.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

By August, Walmart was close: More than 65% of stores were receiving some automated freight and over 50% of e-commerce inventory was moving through automated systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

It has taken the biggest hit after the war with Iran sent gas prices soaring, hurting the beleaguered industry that hauls 70% of all freight in America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

On the third day the freight crossed the mountains, and that was the time for unseasonable warm weather throughout the Middle West.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

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

It started off in good style, operating two passenger express trains, an accommodation and two freights each day in each direction.

From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford

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

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

From there, the council freighted the policy with stipulations that made it difficult to actually satisfy.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

After years apart, the band feels lighter and less freighted with expectation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2025

I was not just a spouse but the husband of a black woman, a freighted symbol of black love.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

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

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

Besides, freighting the timber to northern mills would keep his railroad cars puffing.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson