Cargo

(noun)

(or freight) is goods or produce transported, generally for commercial gain, by ship, aircraft, intermodal train, van, or truck. In modern times, containers are used in most intermodal freight transport.

Examples of Cargo in the following topics:

  • Distribution Modes

    • Air cargo, commonly known as air freight, is collected by firms from shippers and delivered to customers.
    • Aircraft were first used for carrying mail as cargo in 1911.
    • There are many commercial aircraft suitable for carrying cargo such as the Boeing 747 and the bigger An-124, which was purposely built for easy conversion into a cargo aircraft.
    • Many firms, such as Parcelforce, FedEx, R+L Carriers, and U-Haul, transport all types of cargo by road.
    • Cargo net being used to unload sacks from a ship at Haikou New Port, Haikou City, Hainan, China.

  • Shipping and Transportation

    • Shipping is a physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo, by land, air, and sea.
    • Shipping is a physical process of transporting commodities, merchandise goods, and cargo, by land, air, and sea.
    • Trucks and trains make deliveries to sea ports and air ports where cargo is moved in bulk.
    • For example, at CIF Los Angeles, the exporter pays the ocean shipping/air freight costs to Los Angeles including the insurance of cargo.
    • Harbour cranes unloading cargo from a container ship at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Navi Mumbai, India

  • A Brief Definition of Brand

    • Factories branded their logo or insignia on the barrels used and the logo of the companies to which the cargo was being shipped.

  • Landrum-Griffin Act

    • Congress also amended the National Labor Relations Act, as part of the same piece of legislation that created the LMRDA, by tightening the Taft-Hartley Act's prohibitions against secondary boycotts, prohibiting certain types of "hot cargo" agreements, under which an employer agreed to cease doing business with other employers, and empowering the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board to seek an injunction against a union that engages in recognitional picketing of an employer for more than thirty days without filing a petition for representation with the NLRB.

  • Types of Advertising

    • These can be on dedicated vehicles built solely for carrying advertisements along routes preselected by clients, they can also be specially equipped cargo trucks or, in some cases, large banners strewn from planes.