Sentence examples for freighter agent from inspiring English sources
"There is no way you'll get a three-year-old aboard," we were flatly told by a New Zealand freighter agent, part of a little-known cadre of people who specialize in booking passage aboard cargo ships.
The packages were smeared with oil or grease, a common tactic used to mask the smell of the cocaine from drug-sniffing dogs when it is hidden in trucks or aboard freighters, said Vic Pedalino, the assistant special agent in charge of the D.E.A.'s New York field division.
Eight years ago, when the bridge was reopened after repairs, the ribbon-cutting ceremony was interrupted by D.E.A. agents hunting for drugs on a passing freighter.
Not just odd, but huge: When two Italian Navy warships eventually stopped the freighter, the Adam, off the Libyan coast on April 12 , 2013 agents found a terrified Syrian crew and 15 metric tons of hashish — a stash many multiples larger than Italian officials had ever seen.
As anti-drug-trafficking agents closed in on a North Korean freighter about to enter the Panama Canal this month, the crew from the rogue communist country took evasive action.
"Freighter below us!" Rosa called.
MARIS FREIGHTER CRUISES, 215 Main Street, Westport, Conn.
A freighter bound for Lake Superior.
That boat apparently collided with a freighter.
In the morning air, the freighter Havskar,.
