Sentence examples for cargo freighter from inspiring English sources

A Navy cargo freighter comes across something strange in the Atlantic Ocean and everybody aboard dies or disappears.

At 17, he had crossed the country with three other boys in a second hand Buick, returning home by working on a cargo freighter the day before school started.

Big ones may occasionally make ocean crossings under their own power, rather than on the deck of a cargo freighter; but they are not like cargo ships, tramping the seven seas in perpetual motion.

Placing the ancient rivalry between East Asia's two great nations under a new lens, Japanese now see themselves as the world's highest-wage economy, separated only two days by cargo freighter from the world's largest low-wage economy.

The cargo freighter is being towed into a fishing port, Spain's deputy prime minister, Mar?Teresa Fern?ez de la Vega, told reporters, adding that once the people have been identified, "work will start to repatriate them to their countries of origin".

Prosecutors seeking his extradition filed papers earlier this year, accusing him of agreeing to sell a cargo freighter's worth of rifles, pistols, grenade launchers and shoulder-fired rockets to the rebels in Colombia who seek to kill American forces there on antidrug missions.

Efficient transoceanic conveyance of bulk materials is typically accomplished by large cargo freighters and conference carriers.

But perhaps foremost it is a present-day reminder of an era when the city actually worked: when tin and sugar were produced in its factories, when garments were assembled in its textile lofts, when cargo freighters full of sofas and bananas were unloaded at its docks.

This has led to research into alternative fuels such as liquefied natural gas (LNG), and a slowdown in the speed at which cargo freighters move at - a practice known as slow steaming.

Numerous vessels ran aground due to rough seas associated with the storm, including several thousand ton cargo freighters.

Star Wars changed all this, as Lucas dropped his characters into garbage compactors and grimy cantinas, or had them hauled around in Jawa junk caravans and broken-down cargo freighters - like the wonderfully clunky Millennium Falcon.