A Chinese factory worker, just a short freighter trip away from here, will work two days for the same pay that some Japanese factory workers earn in one hour.
My wife and I want to take a trip by freighter with stops in South America, Africa and Asia.
Concerns, but No Action By 2004, Mr. Juma Khan had gained control over routes from southern Afghanistan to Pakistan's Makran Coast, where heroin is loaded onto freighters for the trip to the Middle East, as well as overland routes through western Afghanistan to Iran and Turkey.
It arrived at a pier in Brooklyn after a lengthy trip on an aged freighter.
FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS piece about a trip aboard a Norwegian freighter from N.Y. to Rio.
She was running out of possibilities when, in the fall of 1951, she decided on a "crazy trip" and took a freighter to Brazil.
The New Yorker, October 12 , 1957P. 110 FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS piece about a trip aboard a Norwegian freighter from N.Y. to Rio.
As we pulled away from the beautiful land, I realised how much I would dearly remember not only the Marquesan islands, but also the freighter that made the seemingly unthinkable trip a reality.
But while we wait for 'Mars World' to get its first roller coaster ready, SpaceX -- Musk's majority-owned astronomical venture -- has signed an agreement with NASA for its free-flying Dragon spacecraft to start delivering human cargo to the International Space Station based on their craft's already-successful trips as a space-freighter.
Long trips are keeping so many dry-bulk freighters busy that the cost to charter one from Brazil to China has soared to $46,000 a day, from $15,000 a day just last year, according to Tim Huxley, managing director of Clarkson Asia, a big ship broker.
