Sentence examples for large freighter from inspiring English sources

Sevenstar is able to ship yachts on the large freighter fleet owned by its parent company, Spliethoff, which gives them greater control, he said.

One of the best leading indicators of international trade in commodities is the Baltic Exchange Dry Index, which measures the daily cost of chartering a large freighter.

Across the island, the strongest winds downed large trees and washed a large freighter ashore.

In 1975 she participated in her first all women's Alcatraz Swim when a large freighter ship passed and left her dangerously disoriented and ultimately hypothermic.

She served for just over a month with the Canadians before being sunk in a collision with a large freighter she was escorting on 22 October 1940.

The world's tonnage of large freighters is climbing by more than 10 percent a year, with 1,650 large freighters for bulk commodities expected to emerge from shipyards this year alone.

So the canal today accommodates only ships that carry up to about 5,000 containers, whereas large freighters already carry 12,000, and the largest carry even more.

As recently as six weeks ago large freighters that can carry bulk commodities like iron ore or grain were fetching charter rates of $15,000 a day.

At least 90 large freighters full of iron ore are idling off Chinese ports, where they face waits of up to two weeks to unload because port storage operations are overflowing, chief executives of shipping companies said in interviews this week.

For instance, large freighters are now required to carry devices that continuously transmit their position, a precaution that may reduce the risk of collision as well as make it easier for naval forces to keep track of the ships.

We learn that Redford is in this predicament because his sailing sloop has been rammed by a random shipping container that had broken loose from one of the large freighters traversing these forgotten waters.