Sentence examples for freight freight from inspiring English sources
In many cases (especially, containerized freight), freight is transshipped from one train to another instead of changing the bogies.
"We're dealing with a superintendent, the co-op rules, freight elevators, freight entrances".
All the attention amused the trainmen who still work the freight lines and freight trains in the city.
"Screening every piece of freight on every single freight aircraft coming or leaving the United States would be a tremendous challenge and would not equate to 100 percent air cargo security," said Brandon Fried, the president of the Airforwarders Association, an industry trade group.
Air France said it "considers that the level of the fines is disproportionate" as "the actions in question had no detrimental effect on the freight shippers nor the freight forwarders".
It provides about 4,100 passenger train vehicles and 280 freight locomotives to passenger and freight operators.
Indian Railways is a huge government bureaucracy with some of the world's highest freight charges, even though Indian freight trains travel slowly and carry small loads.
His economic acumen was shown in his collection and use of railway statistics and in the implementation of an effective freight tariff whereby he lowered freight rates and increased revenue.
And since most passenger trains outside the Northeast Corridor operate on routes used primarily for freight, fewer people and less freight will move in the future unless rail capacity is increased.
But to make it work, the region would have to improve its rail-freight system by building a freight tunnel under New York harbor or restore rail service across the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
And parts of the market are doing well: last year express air freight grew by 6% globally.Freight companies like using Heathrow because large logistics firms and warehouses have sprung up around its edges, and it is also near motorways which connect up to huge distribution centres in the Midlands.
