cargo
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burden, draft, freight, haul, lading, load, loading, payload, weight
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In Maryland, the first cargo ship carrying 13 enslaved Africans arrived several decades later in St. Mary’s City in 1642. — Lillian Reed, baltimoresun.com, "Maryland national parks plan commemoration four centuries after first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia," 23 Aug. 2019 The cargo ships are pulled in for berthing by the station's robot arm and those ports do not require the capture mechanisms in an IDA. — William Harwood, CBS News, "Space station gets a new docking port in key upgrade for Boeing and SpaceX visits – live stream," 21 Aug. 2019 Firefighters at Port Everglades used a ladder truck Sunday to rescue a worker suffering from heat exposure 50 feet down in a cargo ship. — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, "Firefighters rescue man from 50 feet inside ship at Port Everglades," 18 Aug. 2019 Regardless of whether India has a choice about coal, Mr. Adani’s empire of mines, cargo ships, ports and power plants depends heavily on it. — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, "How One Billionaire Could Keep Three Countries Hooked on Coal for Decades," 15 Aug. 2019 Finally, the presence of the Serebryanka — a nuclear fuel cargo ship — near the location of the explosion raises suspicions. — Alex Ward, Vox, "What caused Russia’s radioactive explosion last week? Possibly a nuclear-powered missile.," 13 Aug. 2019 The cargo bays are lined with dormant droids that could wake up at any minute. — Adi Robertson, The Verge, "System Shock 2 helped define survival horror — but it’s still in a league of its own," 11 Aug. 2019 Vessels of all kinds—including cargo ships—are on the rise too, and the number of trips taken in Canadian Arctic waters nearly doubled in the last decade. — Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, "Climate change is luring cruise ships to sail risky Arctic passages," 1 Aug. 2019 The golfers have to hit the ball around small Victorians, a couple of cargo ships, a ghost town, a Chinatown gate, Sutro Tower and two symbols of the city skyline — the Transamerica Pyramid and Salesforce Tower. — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, "Hey old San Francisco, meet new San Francisco: the East Cut and Thrive City," 13 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cargo.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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