Gordon Sondland

My mother was able to get out of Germany because her father was Russian and those with a Russian passport could leave. My father was not so fortunate. He had to be smuggled out of Germany by being tied to the bow of a vegetable freighter that was leaving in the North Sea. He almost lost a leg because it was so cold, but he ended up in France.

American Public Servant

Christopher Buckley

Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.

American Novelist

Elaine Chao

When my mother, sisters and I arrived on the shores of America when I was 8 years old, the boat on which we came, a freighter, passed the Statue of Liberty.

American Politician

Used in contexts related to the movement of goods across water.

Transportation Context

Freighters are specifically for goods, not transporting people.

Not For Passengers

Implies a large size, capable of carrying substantial cargo.

Size Implications

Refers to someone's job in the shipping industry.

Occupation Role

Focuses on the responsibility for safe and correct loading.

Responsibility Highlight

A freighter isn't typically the one piloting the transportation.

Not the Driver

 just cool you know you're preying on catching your fish when the Sun's up you know and then all of a sudden you wake up middle of night are you having dinner in the rod laps over and you got a paycheck I'm tickled I mean what's better than I keep somebody awake all night just to monitor that or yeah always somebody has to do it making sure you know there's not ships and freighters coming through other boats

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 puttering along with this tiny engine has since become giant container ships that stretch as long as skyscrapers stand tall. We know that to keep the planet from warming further, we must completely transform the way that we power our homes, our cars and the freighters that bring us all our precious stuff. The shipping industry must join the rest of the world in addressing climate change,

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 where the Japanese freighters hang light in the horizon ready to fill their holds with raw logs ripped from the forest -- or, in the case of the Yanomami, it's the disease entities that have come in, in the wake of the discovery of gold. Or if we go into the mountains of Tibet, where I'm doing a lot of research recently,

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 freighter shipped across the tropics to California unloaded put on a truck driven across the desert to the National ice core laboratory in Denver Colorado where as we speak scientists are now slicing this material up for samples for analysis to be distributed to the

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 freighter who will move the product to wherever Sweden Kenya etc etc and the payments will come through the system that we're working which is a text message based payment system it doesn't even include if we're worried about the the axis of evil between the

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 This is a freighter that was sunk by a u-boat during World War II. Right now, she lies about 90 feet underwater. That's where we tend to see a lot of Sand Tiger sharks hanging out. - Tanya is on the front line, trying to discover the secret

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 forward it's no longer a question of chucking a tapestry in the back of a car they have to be wound on huge rollers shipped in oversized freighters some of them was so big we had to get them into the museum we had to take them up the

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 This past season, they manhandled them across the ice to waiting aircraft. The 109th Air National Guard flew the most recent shipment of ice back to the coast of Antarctica, where it was boarded onto a freighter,

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 located inside a media freighter stopped the answer is billsborough kentucky thats a media also helped to form the Cumberland Gap thank you so much for watching my video I'm so honored to be

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 They have to be wound on huge rollers, shipped in oversized freighters. Some of them are so big we had, to get them into the museum, we had to take them up the great steps at the front.