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freight

[freyt] / freɪt /


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Also, the Middle East conflict should delay pace of full-scale resumption of Suez Canal, potentially supporting container freight rates and the port manager’s pricing power.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

The extra distance raises freight and insurance costs, ties up ships and can delay deliveries by weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Back-up freight vessel MV Arrow is also set to return to the island while the Manxman is out of action.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

"We could weather it for two weeks, three weeks, even a month, but even in that time, we will see higher freight rates, higher energy prices and that bleeds into higher energy consumer costs."

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

He got me a man’s job unloadin’ freight barges that come down the Yazoo.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

The script freights these qualities with guilt, which Cormier ably juggles in direr moments.

From Salon Feb. 22, 2024

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

You can order the same machine from England, pay freights for its passage twice across the Atlantic, and get it for about one-half the money.

From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.

Can you please unpack the really freighted language in the birthright citizenship clause that is “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

From Slate Mar. 16, 2026

But this is a story freighted with symbolism and one which has drawn outsized international attention because of its connection to that other world religion - football.

From BBC Jan. 20, 2026

Some elements of this year’s White House decor theme seem similarly freighted.

From Salon Dec. 11, 2025

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

Hie word was freighted with such seductiveness that Kaede picked up the goblet without hesitation.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

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




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