freight insensitive

French translation: non affecté par le transport

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English term or phrase:freight insensitive
French translation:non affecté par le transport
Entered by: Jean-Luc Crucifix

15:44 Oct 18, 2001
English to French translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping
English term or phrase: freight insensitive
Fabricating a (*freight insensitive* or water transportable) metal product

(dans une description d'entreprise métallurgique)
Jean-Luc Crucifix
France
à transport lent, à transport non urgent, transportable par voie navigable
Explanation:
According to the link below, insensitive freight refers to "Coal, Iron, Bauxite, Logs, Pulpwood, Oil, Diesel, Aluminum, Rubber" or "slow freight". "They are insensitive, for the most part, and its usually not worth the fuel to haul them really long distances." (I guess "fast freight", if there is such a thing, refers to perishable goods.)
Hence, it's logical that insensitive freight should be transported by water.
Possible translations could be "fret intemporel" ou "fret non urgent".
Freight insensitive could be "à transport lent" (ou non urgent),or just "transportable par voie navigable", which still sounds a bizarre way to characterize a metal product -- I'd think most metals are insensitive freight.
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VBaby
Local time: 05:23
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J'ai finalement choix: "Non affecté par le transport".

Merci de m'avoir mis sur la voie!
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Summary of answers provided
3résistant au transport maritime
Laure Delpech
1à transport lent, à transport non urgent, transportable par voie navigable
VBaby


  

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résistant au transport maritime


Explanation:
I would think that, here, insensitive is about resistance to impacts during transport by boat (since you mention water).

Laure Delpech
France
Local time: 06:23
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à transport lent, à transport non urgent, transportable par voie navigable


Explanation:
According to the link below, insensitive freight refers to "Coal, Iron, Bauxite, Logs, Pulpwood, Oil, Diesel, Aluminum, Rubber" or "slow freight". "They are insensitive, for the most part, and its usually not worth the fuel to haul them really long distances." (I guess "fast freight", if there is such a thing, refers to perishable goods.)
Hence, it's logical that insensitive freight should be transported by water.
Possible translations could be "fret intemporel" ou "fret non urgent".
Freight insensitive could be "à transport lent" (ou non urgent),or just "transportable par voie navigable", which still sounds a bizarre way to characterize a metal product -- I'd think most metals are insensitive freight.



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VBaby
Local time: 05:23
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 6
Grading comment
J'ai finalement choix: "Non affecté par le transport".

Merci de m'avoir mis sur la voie!
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