The cost of transporting goods by ship, truck, or other vehicle, or the goods themselves when being transported for payment.
From 'freight' (cargo) + the suffix '-age' (denoting a charge or collection). 'Freight' derives from Middle Dutch 'vracht,' originally meaning the profit from cargo trading.
Freightage costs literally shaped global trade—before railways and trucks, calculating what it cost to ship goods determined which routes were profitable and which empires controlled world commerce.
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