Sentence examples for of freighter from inspiring English sources

FIRES on Boeing's new 787 Dreamliners, together with two recent fire-related crashes of freighter aircraft, have increased fears about the flammability of modern aeroplanes.

Applying a hierarchical cluster analysis, the paper uses absolute (cargo tonnage) and relative measures (share of cargo work load units, of freighter movements and of international cargo) to establish the reliance of different airport types and groupings on air cargo.

It records the coming and going of freighters that are nowhere in sight.

The global downturn and a glut of freighters are pressuring ship owners and banks.

In an inexorable shipbuilding trend, each generation of freighters is larger than the previous one.

The growth of the Asian shipping market is also changing the ownership of the global fleet of freighters and tankers.

And the fuel being burned by the scores of freighters heading to and from Hong Kong and the nearby Pearl River Delta every day is nasty stuff indeed.

So power stations have begun shipping in coal from overseas, turning China into a net importer in the first half of 2007 and prompting the huge queues of freighters outside coal ports such as Newcastle, Australia.

The 30-minute, 12-mile trip ($6) departs from the Amador Causeway, a palm tree-lined peninsula built from canal construction debris, and makes its way through the maze of freighters lined up at the waterway's mouth.

Under the impact of wave after wave of alien invasions, most brought in the ballast tanks of freighters arriving from across the Atlantic, the lakes are "really in turmoil," said David J. Jude, a research scientist at the University of Michigan.

Growing numbers of freighters were backed up around the two busiest US cargo hubs on Sunday due to a dispute between shipping companies and dock workers that has led to a partial shutdown of ports along the west coast.