By 1950 or so, the ocean freighter was dying, if not already dead.

These solutions, which involved old technology, simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years.

The air lift went on the next day without respite, and the first ocean freighter, hurriedly loaded at Capetown, radioed her estimated time of arrival.

Recent seizures of cocaine at sea suggest that shipments on ocean freighters bound from Latin American ports also are on the rise, they said.

The mill had its own shipping and receiving pier to accommodate ocean freighters.

A lifelong resident of Harlem, he also travelled extensively during the two years that he worked on ocean freighters.

The squat machines loading and unloading the automated ocean freighters didn't require the pier lights.

At the same time the company also began operating large ocean freighters.

The place is a rough-hewn monument to the mariner with its ships-in-a-bottle, life preservers from the old ocean freighters, and the toilet that smells like a cargo hold.

Since the freshwater lakes are less corrosive to ships than the salt water of the oceans, lakers tend to last much longer than ocean freighters.