Sentence examples for freighter traffic from inspiring English sources

But because the PMA has already ceased nighttime vessel operations at Oakland and other major ports for the time being, Oakland will end up effectively closed to freighter traffic for 24 hours, the port said.

They said a dozen masked men boarded the ship, tied them up, beat them, questioned them about drug trafficking and searched the freighter before leaving.

Just below the observation deck, a neighborhood of pristine Victorian homes unfurls down Coxcomb Hill to Astoria's bright and tidy business district, and then on to the broad and choppy Columbia, with its busy traffic of fishing boats and freighters.

They are more worried about tides, white caps, fog, wind, rain, freezing temperatures, freighters, sailboats, dock masters, broken or missing rails or rail cars, traffic, double-parked cars, faulty switches, bad drivers and stuff getting stolen.

His assistance to Richard Nixon's administration—helping, for example, to obtain the release of two American freighter crews from Havana was coloured by persistent reports of his involvement in drug trafficking.

These days the river is busy with traffic of a more salubrious kind, but high-fantailed junks still cut in among the freighters and tankers.

* A freighter.

"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.