English-Portuguese translations for freight

• carga
  para os portos de navegação interior, 500 000 toneladas de carga. for inland ports: 500 000 tonnes of freight.
  Actualmente, a maior parte dos navios de passageiros e de carga de longo curso utilizam óleo combustível pesado. At present, most seagoing passenger and freight vessels use heavy fuel oil.
  As mercadorias perigosas representam 8% da carga transportada. Dangerous goods represent 8% of the transported freight.
• frete
  Fretes ferroviários no Túnel sob a Mancha Rail freight in the Channel Tunnel
  Em seguida, a comunicação sobre uma rede ferroviária baseada no frete na Europa.Next, the communication on a rail network focussed on freight in Europe.
  O frete internacional será aberto ao mercado em 1 de Janeiro de 2006, e o frete nacional em 1 de Janeiro de 2007. International freight services will be handed over to the market on 1 January 2006, and national freight services on 1 January 2007.

Definition of freight

• Payment for transportation
• Goods or items in transport
• Transport of goods
• Cultural or emotional associations
• To transport (goods

Examples

• The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.
• The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway
• They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.

Related words

• freighter
• affreightment
• freightage
• affreight
• freighttrain
• freightway
• freight train
• freight bicycle
• freight car