The gear is being loaded on a local cargo ship at Suva, for delivery to Mago Island.
Examples of 'cargo boat' in a sentence
cargo boat
It need not be luxurious - possibly a cargo boat taking passengers.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Built in 1926 as a cargo boat, it has been converted into a family home.
The Sun (2017)
Trainee gondoliers can be seen honing their newfound skills on red gondolas while the occasional ferry and cargo boat motor past.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Ryckmans the sailor travelled there in steerage, with a fourth-class ticket on a cargo boat.
The Times Literary Supplement (2018)
The ducks have been bobbing around the oceans since falling off a cargo boat in 1992.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The attention forced him to gybe metres from cargo boats and fishing trawlers in busy shipping lanes.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Officials estimate that there are at least 14 vessels ranging from rubber dinghies to wooden cargo boats carrying the migrants.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
We took the third option: the mixed cargo boats that lumber along the river, belching diesel fumes and carrying passengers, chickens, timber, tractors, bananas ... whatever.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Punts are flat-bottomed boats with a square-cut bow for use in shallow waters and originated as cargo boats and angling vessels.