Sentence examples for bulk freight from inspiring English sources
"They're cheaper than California clementines because they're loaded on large ocean vessels, and bulk freight lowers our landed prices".
The long coastal corridor is still pivotal to the state's economy, but, except for bulk freight, shipping has been displaced by road, rail, and air services.
More than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of inland waterways form the main arteries for carrying bulk freight to and from the ports.
The report claims that the economic benefit of the move has been overstated, with foreign-owned shipping and companies using bulk freight the main beneficiaries.
While shipping's proponents hold that bulk freight by sea is far more efficient by volume than other means of transportation, it has been estimated that the shipping industry's CO2 emissions could increase by a third by 2020.
As the lines of ships waiting to unload cargo at Chinese ports dwindled, ocean bulk freight rates tumbled as well, falling by more than half on some routes after shooting up seven or eightfold last year and early this year.
The Baltic Freight Index, which tracks dry-bulk freight rates, was at its lowest in nearly a decade in August.
Rates for dry-bulk freight, a leading indicator for global economic activity, have been falling for 10 straight days, reflecting a surplus of ships and falling prices for steel.
From 1974 to the 1980s intrastate road freight was deregulated, and rail "common carrier" obligations were removed, resulting in the loss of to road of much non-bulk freight.
There are two main kinds of freight, bulk cargo and break bulk or general cargo, most of which is now transported in containers.
