Sentence examples for total freight from inspiring English sources
The rivers play an important role in the province's transport, and a significant amount of the total freight volume travels on these inland waterways.
Although historically there were numerous harbours along the Zhejiang coast, coastal shipping accounted for only a small percentage of the total freight volume for some time.
Construction materials and raw materials account for about 80 percent of the total freight; other cargoes include petroleum and petroleum products, coal, foodstuffs, salt, tractors and agricultural machinery, automobiles, chemical apparatus, and fertilizers.
Every day, 20 million pounds of cargo, or 16 percent of the total freight carried by air into or out of the United States, are transported by passenger planes, according to the International Air Cargo Association.
By the late 1990's, while rail's share of total freight movement in the United States was 41percentthanksnks to computerized systems and new technologies like intermodal transport that move containers by road and rail, in Europe it hovered at about 16percentt.
The rail link, which opened in 2006, cuts across nearly 1,250 miles of rugged plateaus and high-altitude permafrost and carries more than 1.5 million tourists into Tibet a year, as well as around three-quarters of total freight in and out of the region.
At present less than 6% of total British freight transport is accounted for by rail, compared with 15% in France and 21% in Germany.
Total railway freight between Slovakia and Ukraine makes around 16 million tonnes per year, which amounts to about 40%% of the entire railway freight transport in Slovakia.
For the White Paper Low scenario, the shift from road is expected to be quite low, with the total rail freight demand similar to the Reference scenario.
The clue is in the scene where he totals a freight train rather than removing the car trapped in its tracks.
Most long-term predictions suggest that, despite weak growth over the past couple of years, the total of freight-tonne kilometres flown will expand by around 6% a year over the next couple of decades (see chart).
