Sentence examples for river freight from inspiring English sources
The amount and value of river freight has actually declined sharply since the late 1970s, a few years before the project was finally completed, according to federal data.
The Boyoma Falls, consisting of seven cataracts, impede river navigation above Kisangani for about 56 miles (90 km); a short railroad and road were built to carry river freight and other goods between Kisangani and the port of Ubundu, located above the falls.
We need to highlight the role of the river for freight and passenger transport and open it up to recreation, assuming we are able to keep it as clean as it deserves to be.
But while it was a relatively easy paddle, it wasn't entirely peaceful; Metro North trains ran up the eastern shore of the river, and freight cars rumbled up the west.
The North American Class 1 railroads by comparison are vertically integrated and operate along wholly commercial lines against other major and regional rail operators and strong road and river based freight competitors.
Both have river ports, freight-rail lines and interstate highways to connect the airports to surface transport.
What lay ahead of him was an exhausting year and a half of sleeping on jail-cell floors, dodging beatings from authorities, crossing rivers and hopping freight trains with one goal: to seek asylum in Germany, where he had relatives.
The analysis concluded that the deepening would allow larger cargo ships and tankers to travel up the river, saving money on freight costs.
It soon became a lively agricultural trading community, with its products (wheat, corn [maize], tobacco, livestock, fruits, and vegetables) transported to Cincinnati and New Orleans via freight wagons, river flatboats, and the Miami and Erie Canal boats.
On the south side of the river one of the freight tunnels of the Chicago Tunnel Company had to be re-routed to make room for the tailpit.
And the State of Missouri received $900,000 in federal money to examine how to get more freight on the river.
