Sentence examples for freighter at from inspiring English sources

It shut down oil refineries, endangered a freighter at sea and destroyed a pier in Galveston.

In 2010, he says, he sailed a freighter at full speed straight out of Mogadishu, Somalia's capital.

With the shipping industry going through hard times, anyone can pick up a second-hand freighter at bargain-basement prices.

A Moscow court arrested eight people on Friday suspected of hijacking a freighter at the center of a monthlong high-seas mystery, according to Russian news agencies.

Having thus proved his ability to get on and off a freighter at a heavily secured port without drawing scrutiny, prosecutors said, the man was then trusted by drug lords in Panama to pick up a more substantial prize: several dozen one-kilogram packages of Colombian cocaine.

The supplemental article detailing the fictional history of Tales of the Black Freighter at the end of issue five credits real-life artist Joe Orlando as a major contributor to the series.

Renovating the port of Najin, which can berth 17 midsize freighters at a time, would relieve cargo congestion in Vladivostok and Nakhodka, Russia's two principal Pacific ports.

The next day was Easter Sunday, when he could put aside his chores loading ammunition and bombs onto freighters at the Caven Point pier in Jersey City for shipment to Europe.

The view out the Narrows from the south end of the island, Picnic Point (a name selected in a contest on GIPEC's blog), is unlike any other: the Verrazano Bridge, the loading cranes, the freighters at mooring.

Some 100,000 workers offloaded iron ore and sand from freighters at one end of the complex, and rolled out finished cars from the other, all no doubt inspired by Henry Ford's vision of mass production.

At the port, he uses a Swedish vacuum pumping technology not yet found in the United States to unload the barges and then load the beans into 50,000-ton freighters at 25 tons a minute.