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cargo
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cargo noun baggage, boatload, bulk, capacity, cartload, charge, commodities, consignment, conveyance, freight, freightage, furnishings, goods, haul, impedimenta, lading, lading of a ship, load, luggage, merchandise, onus, pack, payload, produce, shipload, shipment, shipping, stock, tonnage, transfer, truckload, vanload, ware, wares
Associated concepts: carriers, delivery contract, hot cargo, risk of loss of cargo

CARGO, mar. law. The entire load of a ship or other vessel. Abb. on Sh. Index, h.t.; 1 Dall. 197; Merl. Rep. h.t.; 2 Gill & John. 136. This term is usually applied to goods only, and does not include human beings. 1 Phill. Ins. 185; 4 Pick. 429. But in a more extensive and less technical sense, it includes persons; thus we say a cargo of emigrants. See 7 Mann. Gr. 729, 744.



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Though both cases were detected on separate days, the fact that the countries of origin and destination were the same of both cargos has led the customs officials suspect the hands of one particular racket behind the smuggling cases.
7 kg of opium hidden inside two transit cargos arriving from an Asian country and on their way to a western country through Dubai International Airport.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi rail stations have received cargos of Syrian goods and reinforced iron rods, the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation said on Thursday.
 
 
 
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