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In transportation, freight refers to the conveyance of goods by land, water or air, while cargo refers to the goods being transported. In economics , freight refers to goods transported at a freight rate for commercial gain.
Freight transport, also referred to as freight forwarding, is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. [1] The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English , it has been extended to refer to transport by land or air (International English: "carriage") as well.
A FedEx Express Boeing 777F taxiing at Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan in 2012 A Volga-Dnepr Airlines An-124 cargo aircraft ready for loading in 2008 Global air transport by country and freight level as of 2017 (ton-km) [1] Air cargo is any property carried or to be carried in an aircraft. Air cargo comprises air freight, air ...
Intermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation (e.g., rail, ship, aircraft, and truck), without any handling of the freight itself when changing modes. The method reduces cargo handling, and so improves security, reduces damage and loss, and ...
Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers. A freight train , cargo train, or goods train is a group of freight cars (US) or goods wagons ( International Union of Railways ) hauled by one or more locomotives on a railway, transporting cargo all or some of the way between the ...
Project cargo is a term used to broadly describe the national or international transportation of large, heavy, high value, or critical (to the project they are intended for) pieces of equipment. Also commonly referred to as heavy lift , this includes shipments made of various components which need disassembly for shipment and reassembly after ...
When the cargo is being shipped by several different shipping companies on the same vessel, there will usually be separate bills of lading for each company, but only a single consolidated cargo manifest. On the other hand, if the cargo contains dangerous goods, there may be a separate dangerous cargo manifest. A manifest can be exchanged for ...
A Boeing 777F of FedEx Express, which is the largest cargo airline in the world. Unit load device LD3 containers being loaded onto a Boeing 777-300ER A Boeing 747-400F of Cargolux. Cargo airlines (or air freight carriers, and derivatives of these names) are airlines mainly dedicated to the transport of cargo by air.