Freight vs. Barge — What's the Difference?

Goods transported in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft

A barge is a shoal-draft flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of bulk goods. Originally barges were towed by draft horses on an adjacent towpath.

A freight train

A long, large, usually flatbottom boat for transporting freight that is generally unpowered and towed or pushed by other craft.

A load or burden

A large, open pleasure boat used for parties, pageants, or formal ceremonies.

Transport (goods) in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft

A powerboat reserved for the use of an admiral.

Be laden or burdened with

To carry by barge.

Goods carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial carrier; cargo.

To move about clumsily.

A burden; a load.

To intrude or interrupt, especially rudely

Commercial transportation of goods.

A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.

The charge for transporting goods. Also called freightage.

A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.

A railway train carrying goods only.

A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.

To convey commercially as cargo.

One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars

To load with goods to be transported.

The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.

To imbue with a specified element or elements

(US) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.

(uncountable) The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.

A large omnibus used for excursions.

(uncountable) Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.

To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.

(countable) Payment for transportation.

(transitive) To push someone.

(figuratively)

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

(countable) A burden, a load.

A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.

Cultural or emotional associations.

A large boat used by flag officers.

(transitive)

A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.

To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.

A large omnibus used for excursions.

To transport (goods).

A flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)

(by extension) To load or store (goods, etc.).

Push one's way;

(figuratively) To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.

Transport by barge on a body of water

Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.

(obsolete) Freighted; laden.

That with which anything is fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.

The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.

Freight transportation, or freight line.

Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.

To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.

Goods carried by a large vehicle

Transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates

The charge for transporting something by common carrier;

Transport commercially as cargo

Load with goods for transportation