Sentence examples for sending freight from inspiring English sources

But they fought back with huge increases in fuel efficiency – America's railroads are three times more fuel efficient than sending freight by truck – and improved service reliability.

Its creators hoped to achieve a division of labour, sending freight to New York and New England north along the New York Central's water-level route while the Pennsylvania main tracks served the industrial needs of Philadelphia, Baltimore, and the Delaware and Schuylkill valleys.

And sending freight on the ship is expensive, costing £5,000 per container load of goods.

Communist planners sent freight by rail, and built few motorways.

As the freight rates by steamer on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers plummeted, it became cheaper to send freight from Cincinnati, Ohio, to the U.S. east coast via the Mississippi and the long sea passage from New Orleans than to transport it over the Appalachians, a route that was 10 times shorter.

With global warming and volcanic ash, people are more amenable to travel by rail and to send freight by rail.

Die Zeit and other German news outlets reported that the package was sent by air freight, but that the bomb used black powder — a considerably less sophisticated explosive than that used in the packages sent from Yemen.

The roses were sent by air freight to Washington in time for the National Symphony Orchestra ball, one of the social events of the season.

Pseudostem samples from 118 plants were collected and were sent by air freight to Wageningen UR, Plant Sciences Group, The Netherlands, for confirmatory diagnosis of Foc infection.

The most difficult engineering feat involved sending heavy freight trains directly through the famed Bell Telephone Laboratories building at Bethune Street.

Most recently the bombs disguised in air freight, and sent from Yemen, exposed new vulnerabilities in airline security.