(n.) The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measures include tightened financial restrictions and cargo inspections.
(2) Four pilots with "extensive experience" in transporting some of the world's most precious cargo, including white rhinos and penguins, were on the flight.
(3) He’s bought the cattle, booked the container and even reserved a space on a cargo ship.
(4) A dramatic shift in asylum policy in 2001 helped Howard turn around poor polling and win the November federal election, after he refused permission for the MV Tampa to enter Australian waters with its cargo of rescued asylum seekers.
(5) Its loss would be a major blow to Ukraine and would also allow the rebels to receive large cargo planes with supplies in addition to truck convoys from Russia .
(6) The organisation had never however gained access to the "Cargo Building", the most notorious detention centre, in Srinagar.
(7) Field studies of human flora carried out in remote environments are often compromised by problems associated with media, equipment or cargo limitations.
(8) Vine also criticises the searching priorities of the Border Force and HM Revenues and Customs by highlighting that 68% of freight consignments targeted for checks at the border are actually undergoing a physical examination while 43,000 low-risk cargoes were being checked.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Workers unload a cargo plane carrying humanitarian aid from Saudi Arabia at the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq.
(10) The Los Angeles police department, California highway patrol, firefighters and the coastguard conducted a search, while cargo vessels slowed during their passage through the main channel so as to minimise disturbance.
(11) Also in August, terrorist attacks were intensified, including speedboat strafing attacks on a Cuban seaside hotel "where Soviet military technicians were known to congregate, killing a score of Russians and Cubans"; attacks on British and Cuban cargo ships; contaminating sugar shipments; and other atrocities and sabotage, mostly carried out by Cuban exile organizations permitted to operate freely in Florida.
(12) When a boat’s hull was packed with human cargo, it would depart southward to Thailand or Malaysia.
(13) When flight controllers initially could not confirm deployment of the antennas in the minutes following its launch, they selected the backup rendezvous plan of two days and 34 orbits instead of the planned four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous.” A spokesman at Russian mission control said that the Progress “reached orbit but the full volume of telemetry (data transmissions) is not being received.” Russia’s mission control website said that the ship would dock with the ISS, where the international crew of six people awaits the cargo, on April 30.
(14) Authorities were also questioning cargo workers at the airport and employees of the local shipping firms contracted to work with commercial logistics companies.
(15) Two US marine C-130 cargo planes arrived in Tacloban, the coastal city where virtually every building was destroyed by the typhoon's huge storm surge, and were unloading emergency items on Monday evening – the first wave of an aid operation taking in dozens of countries and agencies.
(16) It is sending 329 tonnes of medical and relief cargo.
(17) Go further back, and the UK's proud claim to be "a trading nation" was established with consignments of the bloodstained crops of cotton and sugar, to say nothing of the human cargo that went with them.
(18) Qatar has negotiated new cargo handling arrangements in the Omani ports of Sohar and Salalah, avoiding the need for goods to stop in the UAE.
(19) This path was built to link the tiny fishing settlements along the edge of the loch and allow the precious cargo of "silver darlings" to be carried ashore.
(20) We are working out different options for a water landing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Progress cargo vessel docked at the International Space Station in January 2014.
Shipped
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Ship
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(3) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(4) There were members of the smuggling gang on the ship with walkie-talkies.
(5) Already Britain's electricity is becoming too dependent on gas brought in by ship through the Suez canal.
(6) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(7) The risk for gastric cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease among the workers of the coke shipping department was increased but the SMRs did not reach statistical significance.
(8) The plan to round up some business and ship away seemed sound.
(9) The US has stopped shipping military equipment out of Afghanistan , citing the risk to truckers from protests along part of the route in neighbouring Pakistan.
(10) Polish foreign affairs minister Radoslaw Sikorski has opposed the ships being handed over.
(11) The 61-year-old Canadian, who was one of the original founders of Greenpeace , was arrested last Sunday at Frankfurt airport at the request of Costa Rica, which wants to see him extradited over a 10-year-old charge of "violating ships traffic".
(12) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
(13) The main animal paramyxoviruses are parainfluenza 3 (agent of shipping fever) in cattle; NDV (cause of fowl pest) and Yucaipavirus in birds; Sendai and PVM in mice; Nariva virus in rodents; possibly bovinerespiratory syncytial virus; and SV5 and SV41 in monkeys.
(14) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
(15) The source of the first outbreak was monkeys shipped from Africa; the origin of the second episode is unclear.
(16) Ships should be able to sail directly over the north pole by the middle of this century, considerably reducing the costs of trade between Europe and China but posing new economic, strategic and environmental challenges for governments, according to scientists.
(17) Rob DiGiovanni, who heads a marine mammal rescue group on Long Island, said he was seeing "more evidence of ship strikes and that's definitely a concern".
(18) An improved membrane filtration procedure for use on board ship to enumerate Escherichia coli and Group D faecal streptococci in marine sediments is described.
(19) Official estimates suggest the number of small packages shipped into Europe more than quadrupled from 26m in 2000 to 115m two years ago.
(20) The survey ship has been used in the Gulf of Aden monitoring the Somali coastline, as well as scientific missions such as mapping the seabed of the Persian Gulf.