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Cargo vs Airfreight - What's the difference?

cargo | airfreight |

As nouns the difference between cargo and airfreight

is that cargo is freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc while airfreight is the transportation of freight by air.

As a verb airfreight is

to transport by air.

cargo

English

Noun

  • Freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc.
  • * 1806 , James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson
    • "…her whole and entire cargo'; and, also, all such other ' cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,…"
  • * 1913 , Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence ,
    • "…but human life is worth more than ships or cargos ."
  • (Papua New Guinea ) Western material goods.
  • * 1995 , Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji , Duke University Press, page xi
    • "They wrote of Pacific people with millenarian (and sometimes anti-colonial) expectations who used magical means to get western things (hence the term "cargo " cult)."

    Derived terms

    * cargo cult *

    airfreight

    English

    Alternative forms

    * air freight * air-freight (verb )

    Noun

    (-)
  • the transportation of freight by air
  • the amount charged for such transport

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To transport by air.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 15, author=Elisabeth Rosenthal, title=Europe’s Appetite for Seafood Propels Illegal Trade, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Caught the day before far off the coast of West Africa, they have been airfreighted to London for dinner. }}