freight

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In late March at the annual Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tenn., Georgia Anne Muldrow bounced on sparkling silver high-heeled boots at Jackson Terminal, a former railroad freight depot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

The overall cost of shipping oil shot up after the war broke out, said freight pricing specialist Peter Norfolk at Platts, part of S&P Global Energy.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

“When you deal with long-distance freight and complex scheduling, if suddenly you become unavailable as core infrastructure to your customers, well, the damage ripples through the entire economy,” said Diari.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Elevated diesel prices will drive up costs of everything from contract mining, consumables, reagent freight and contract haulage to export logistics, shipping and mine-site aviation, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

It also made sense to locate the giant storage tank in the North End, near the freight yards and wharves where the molasses could be poured into barrels and shipped to various distilleries.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler