Sentence examples for of airfreight from inspiring English sources
The development of airfreight has emphasized interregional and international competition.
With the advent of airfreight and temperature-controlled shipping, it is less clear as to whether a fruit is in or out of season.
The struggle is especially fierce along the waterfront, where a shadowy Mr. Big oversees the extraction of tribute, sometimes brutally, from everyone who wants to work on or move goods across the docks at a time, before the advent of airfreight, when the port was the main gateway to the city.
But each day its 226 offices in 70 countries keep track of 3,000 shipping containers and 2 million pounds of airfreight as it moves jeans for Gap, laptops for Hewlett-Packard and phones for Motorola.
In fact, in 1939, they surpassed the U.S. in volume of airfreight.
Much of the airfreight of metropolitan Detroit is handled at the Willow Run Airport, a facility constructed as a bomber plant during World War II.
WHO Jerry Kent, 52, vice president of an airfreight maintenance company and his wife, Kim, 52, who works in retail sales, bought the house just over a year ago when they were living in Canton, Conn., to enjoy with their two children.
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) -- This classic Howard Hawks picture concerns Geoff Carter Grantt), operator of an airfreight service in South America's fog-enshrouded Andes Mountains.
These efforts have taken the form of subsidies to the airfreight costs of fresh foods, along with educational activities to nurture a greater public awareness of food preparation and healthy eating practices.
The company also chose Cambridgeshire to kick off its first customer trial of Prime Air drone deliveries — with two beta users able to test ordering a subset of products for airfreighting into their backyards within minutes.
Demand for airfreight is usually strong coming out of a period of slow economic growth because retailers have whittled their inventories and need to replenish quickly when demand picks up.
