The phrase "a cargo boat" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a type of vessel specifically designed for transporting goods or cargo.
Example: "The shipping company operates several cargo boats that travel between the mainland and the islands."
Alternatives: "freight ship" or "cargo vessel."
But Tuesday's accident occurred after the ferry traveling to Dhaka collided with a cargo boat, officials said.
A favorite among dive masters is River Taw, named for a cargo boat that sank in the 1980s.
I was first in the jungle when I was 18 and made a two-month trip into the Amazon aboard a cargo boat.
A cargo boat came by every ten days to bring supplies and offload the catch; naval patrols came close, but the crew would evade them.
She eventually took a monthlong journey on a cargo boat from New York to Argentina, where the two were married in January 1956.
It is also possible to cross the Caspian Sea on a cargo boat between the Azerbaijan capital of Baku and Bandar-é Anzali.
He designed the Rotork Sea Truck, a fast cargo boat in 1970, which has been used by the military and is still sold today.
In the summer of 1983, I made the rash decision to get on a small cargo boat in the port town of Victoria, Cameroon, and sail across the Gulf of Guinea to Calamar, Nigeria.
On 18 April, as the Catrambones were preparing Phoenix to sail again in May, a large Portuguese cargo boat called the King Jacob was sent to rescue a smaller, steel-hulled cargo vessel carrying up to 900 migrants about 17 miles off Libya.
A Lerwick-registered cargo boat is being towed to safety after getting into trouble overnight off Cape Wrath in the north west Highlands.
Next came Greece, Romania again, Turkey and lastly Cairo, to which she travelled in an open-decked cargo boat from Mersin in Turkey; German planes, she recalls, flew low over it but clearly decided it was not worth sinking.
