Sentence examples for a large freighter from inspiring English sources

One of the best leading indicators of international trade in commodities is the Baltic Exchange Dry Index, which measures the daily cost of chartering a large freighter.

Across the island, the strongest winds downed large trees and washed a large freighter ashore.

In 1975 she participated in her first all women's Alcatraz Swim when a large freighter ship passed and left her dangerously disoriented and ultimately hypothermic.

She served for just over a month with the Canadians before being sunk in a collision with a large freighter she was escorting on 22 October 1940.

A reward he did accept a few months after the sinking was command of a larger freighter, Flying Enterprise II.

HONG KONG — Salvage experts and a tugboat crew struggled on Monday to save a large Chinese freighter that slammed into the Great Barrier Reef off Australia over the weekend, trying to prevent the vessel from breaking apart as some of the 1,075 tons of engine fuel in its tanks began oozing from the hull, threatening the world's largest collection of coral.

So badly battered is the shipping industry that the daily rate to charter a large bulk freighter suitable for carrying, say, iron ore, plummeted from close to $300,000 last summer to a low of $10,000 early this year, according to H. Clarkson & Company, a London ship brokerage.

For a large air freighter or airliner, the induced drag accounts for about 40% of the total drag in the cruise phase.

Sevenstar is able to ship yachts on the large freighter fleet owned by its parent company, Spliethoff, which gives them greater control, he said.

We learn that Redford is in this predicament because his sailing sloop has been rammed by a random shipping container that had broken loose from one of the large freighters traversing these forgotten waters.

In the darkness of early morning on 11 September, U-28 attacked the convoy and claimed two large freighters (13,000 tons each) sunk and caused damage to a 10,000 ton tanker, bringing Kuhnke's total for the patrol to five ships for 30,000 tons.