A person who shares the responsibilities or costs of transporting cargo; a joint participant in a freight or shipping venture.
Modern English: co- (together) + freighter (from Old French 'frete' meaning cargo hire, ultimately from Old Norse 'fraethr'). A nautical or logistics term.
In the shipping industry, cofreighters share both the risks and profits of transporting goods across oceans—it's one of those technical maritime terms that shows how centuries of trade created specialized vocabulary for collaboration.
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