Sentence examples for increase in freight from inspiring English sources

He also refrained from an across-the-board increase in freight rates.

Conrail said it expects a substantial increase in freight traffic along the Perth Amboy line in the next decade.

Fred L. Krebs, the New York & Atlantic president, said the third track might bring a marginal increase in freight trains, but "there won't be many more".

By better linking Britain's major cities, an extra 180,000 peak time seats could be provided, as well as a 30% increase in freight.

He also alleges as an item of damages that the increase in freight rates lessened the value of his St. Paul factory through loss of profits.

The most frenetic developments in air transport occurred in the 1960s, with a 10-fold increase in freight traffic and a sevenfold increase in passengers.

Increases in the volume of trade within the UK rail freight industry have led to proposed increases in freight train speeds.

Investors, he says, will be attracted by the huge pent-up demand and "appropriate" increases in freight tariffs and passenger fares.

But although the high-speed trains have played a big role in allowing sharp increases in freight shipments, the Ministry of Railways has not yet figured out a way to charge large freight shippers, many of them politically influential state-owned enterprises, for part of the cost of the high-speed lines, which haul only passengers.

In Sweden "reducing the emissions by 15%% from 2005 to 2025 is seen as possible, even after increases in freight transport volumes" (idem).

Sharp increases in freight rates, stronger import demand and firmer prices of most food commodities are expected to elevate the global food import bill to its second highest level on record.