freighter

Example Sentences

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Washington state is importing the voluntary slowdown from British Columbia for container ships, tankers, freighters, cruise ships and car carriers coming from the Canadian province, Northwest News Network reported.

From Seattle Times

The rusty Liberian freighters bollarded along the docks on the Algiers shore.

From New York Times

On April 18, 2015, the Mediterranean’s deadliest known shipwreck in living memory occurred when an overcrowded fishing boat collided 77 nautical miles off Libya with a freighter that was trying to come to its rescue.

From Seattle Times

Strong winds swept the Aegean Sea, and the pleasure yacht turned human freighter was criminally overloaded – with about 95 migrants so tightly crammed below deck that there was only space to stand.

From Seattle Times

It said the boat was located by a Portuguese-flagged freighter that picked up 82 people, while another three were rescued by a passing Liberian-flagged tanker.

From Seattle Times