Sentence examples for freight shipments from inspiring English sources

By contrast, its railroads carry only a tiny fraction of the province's freight shipments.

It forced businesses to close, put downtown traffic in gridlock, delayed East Coast freight shipments and canceled Orioles baseball games.

Freight shipments also are divided into many classifications, and one factor influencing the freight rates is the value of the product, with higher-valued products paying more.

Business and leisure travel is down and freight shipments have dwindled, probably pushing airline losses to $9 billion worldwide this year, according to the International Air Transport Association.

Competition authorities have uncovered several whopping conspiracies in recent years, including one in which more than 20 airlines worldwide had fixed prices on perhaps $20 billion of freight shipments.

Along with a sharp decline in freight shipments, the other profit source for airlines, the drop in premium passengers combined to paint a darkening picture for the aviation industry.

After gazing over the shrub-dotted savannah wondering where I would find any shade, I cabled a request for an emergency air freight shipment of 10,000 elm trees.

He is in the air freight business, and on the day of the terrible event, all the calls he received had to do with the tragedy and how freight shipment schedules had to be put on hold.

This updates the design that was used previously, including during Otto's press-grabbing autonomous Budweiser freight shipment haul, which subsequently earned a Guinness World Record for "the longest continuous journey by a driverless and autonomous semitrailer truck".

Delta led the charge on Monday, announcing a ban on the freight shipment of all lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies worldwide.

This stink bug is an adept hitchhiker and often detected in vehicles and freight shipment (Holtz & Kamminga, 2010; Tindall et al., 2012).