The word "freighters" is correct in written English.
It is used to refer to ships or vehicles designed for transporting cargo.
Example: "The port was bustling with freighters unloading goods from around the world."
Alternatives: "Cargo ships" or "Freight vessels."
The infrastructure challenges facing India are the main reason why Mr Smith, despite seeing growth opportunities there, thinks China has the greater promise.The need to make the most of these opportunities lay behind his recent decision to cancel FedEx's order for ten air freighters based on the huge A380 super-jumbo after its maker, Airbus, put back the delivery date a second time.
IT SHOULD be among the most beautiful cityscapes on the west coast: a mural of distant mountains, piers jutting into sun-flecked Elliott Bay and giant orange cranes plucking containers from freighters.
More than 60% of the value of the KC-30 would be sourced in America, and EADS would also build commercial freighters on the KC-30 assembly line in Mobile, Alabama.
This week a French naval frigate was praised by the UN's World Food Programme for escorting two freighters loaded with food aid through pirate-infested waters to Somalia.
But slicing up huge oil tankers or freighters on beaches releases oil, heavy metals, dioxins, asbestos and other toxic chemicals into the sea.Last voyageThe sea is the ultimate receptacle for much of the world's waste.
Hence a new railway line to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, is being built.At the same time, freighters chugging between Europe and Asia have been seeking an alternative to their traditional halfway stop in Dubai, which involves a detour into the Gulf.
Somalia is one of the world's poorest countries, yet a low-ranking pirate can probably earn at least $20,000 a year.The EU says its naval force's main mission is to protect freighters carrying the food aid on which Somalis have depended for the past five years, and has thus staved off a full-blown famine.
SEVEN dhows and three freighters float in the sunlit port of Mogadishu.
The three will have to pay $100,000 each time one of their freighters uses an American port.Two hotel chains, Doubletree and Promus Hotel, are to merge in a $2 billion share swap.
Given ACLN's history, however, there is always a chance that it could find even more promise in the market for used freighters.
What they had not counted on, however, was the closure of a German tax shelter in 1996.Hoping to increase business in German shipyards, the German government in the early 1990s created a tax shelter that encouraged investors to band together in syndicates that would commission new freighters.
