freight
Example Sentences
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His portfolio late last year also included bets on Visa, Microsoft, Moody’s and freight railroad company Canadian Pacific Kansas City.
Even on mainstream sailing routes, freight rates for the largest tankers have surged 90% since Maduro’s arrest in anticipation that there will be more oil for the global fleet to accommodate.
Hunt said it decided to prioritize network balance and normalize its freight flows between ports on the east and west coasts, which pressured transcontinental volumes in intermodal.
When hostilities began, operators were forced to divert their cargo ships to longer routes around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, creating a shortage of vessels while inflating freight rates.
Although freight lines have crossed the country for more than a century, long-haul rail shipping remains a fragmented process, replete with congested hubs and delayed handoffs.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.