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the cargo is everything you own, riding in a box that costs more than your house.
means Cargo is the goods or freight carried by a ship, plane, truck, or other vehicle.
from From Spanish 'cargo' or 'carga,' meaning a load or burden, which traces back to the Late Latin verb 'carricare' — 'to load onto a cart,' built from 'carrus,' a wheeled wagon. That same Latin root branches out into a whole family: 'charge,' 'carry,' 'caricature' (literally an 'overloaded' portrait), and even 'car.' So cargo is, at heart, just the stuff piled onto the wagon — only now the wagon is a steel ship the length of a skyscraper.
- global share
- Ninety percent of world trade moves by sea.
- word origin
- From Latin carricare, to load a wagon.
- lost overboard
- Thousands of containers sink each year, untracked.
- pants legacy
- Cargo pockets carried soldiers' gear in 1938.
ever given ship — blocked suez canal in march 2021, carrying 20,000 containers
amazon prime air — operates cargo flights across us since 2014 delivering packages
fedex express — largest cargo airline by revenue, operates 650+ aircraft globally