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a city-sized steel beast that quietly hauls everything you own across the planet's loneliest roads
means A large ship or aircraft built primarily to carry cargo rather than passengers.
from From 'freight' plus the agent suffix '-er' — the thing that does the freighting. 'Freight' itself sailed into English from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German 'vracht' or 'vrecht,' meaning the cargo carried for hire or the fee paid to carry it; the same Germanic root gives German 'Fracht.' The sense traveled from the price of carriage to the goods themselves, and finally to the vessel that bears them.
- crew size
- Giants often run on just 20 people
- fuel thirst
- Burns gallons by the hundreds per mile
- slow turns
- Needs miles to stop or change course
- trade share
- Carries about 90% of global goods
- flag tricks
- Many register in tiny landlocked-friendly nations
ever given — container ship that blocked suez canal for 6 days in march 2021
ss edmund fitzgerald — ore freighter that sank in lake superior november 10 1975
cma cgm antoine — 20,000+ teu container ship launched 2020, world's largest