bulk freight
noun[U]
TRANSPORTukusbulk cargo
thecostoftransportinglargequantitiesofgoodsbyship,train,truck, orplane:
Charterers arehopingfor afurtherdropinbulkfreightrates.
Examplesofbulk freight
bulk freight
The domesticbulkfreightdeveloped because of the nearby mines.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.By the late 20th century, the emphasis had dramatically changed to long-distancebulkfreight.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Rail services are focused primarily on freight, particularlybulkfreight, with limited passenger services on some lines.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Railroads continued to carrybulkfreightsuch as coal, steel and other commodities.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Today, rail services are focussed primarily onbulkfreight, with no commercial passenger services being operated.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Majorbulkfreightincludes coal, lime, steel, wood and wood products, paper pulp, milk, cars, fertiliser, grain and shipping containers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They were generally narrow for their length, could carry limitedbulkfreight, small by later 19th century standards, and had a large total sail area.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.But those inland ports that only transhipbulkfreightshould have an annual traffic volume of at least 500 000 tonnes of freight.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Our freight traffic is mostlybulkfreightwhich, in the nature of the goods, cannot be diverted.
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Bulkfreightrates have been cut in half since the last peak in 1980.
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