Sentence examples for freight declined from inspiring English sources

Although the transport of freight declined slightly year on year between 2004 and 2006, in the decade since 1996 air freight has increased by 31 per cent.

European train freight, which declined from 22percentto10percentcent, is being replaced by truck freight.

Just Wednesday, FedEx announced that profits had shrunk in the latest quarter as freight traffic declined.

The price of second-hand bulk carriers started to fall this spring as freight rates declined, catching out some firms.

Rail's share of inter-city freight traffic declined from 75% in 1929 to 38% in 1980, thanks to new roads and increased competition from trucking.

Caixin, citing sources from the national railway administration, said rail freight volumes declined 10.5% year-on-year to 3.4bn tonnes in 2015.

The number of union stevedores who loaded and unloaded freight also declined, although the commission still overseas 7,000 dockworkers in the area.

In a fresh sign that the Chinese economy has weakened, business magazine Caixin reported on Tuesday that China's national rail freight volumes declined by a tenth in 2015, their biggest ever annual decline.

The construction of the Alaska Railroad was completed in 1922, but by the 1930s, due to effects of the Great Depression, freight traffic declined on the railroad.

Freight, too, has shifted to the road; Europe's lorry loadings have trebled since 1970, whereas railway freight traffic has declined (see chart 3).

Over the last two decades the number of large, independent -- so-called Class I -- freight lines has declined substantially.