Mastras explains that " dead freight " refers to wasted space on a vessel that has been paid for in full.
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The shipowner discharges them from further liability and takes instead a lien on the cargo for payment of all freight, demurrage, or dead freight that is payable.
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The plot of " The Midas Coffin " bears a strikingly similar resemblance to the plot of an episode of " Breaking Bad " titled " Dead Freight ".
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Dead freight is the amount of freight lost, and therefore recoverable by the shipowner from the charterer as damages if a full and complete cargo is not loaded according to the charter-party's terms.
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There is usually what is called the cesser clause, by which the charterer's liability under the charter-party ceases on shipment of the cargo, the shipowner taking a lien on the cargo for freight, dead freight, and demurrage.
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During the fifth season, he wrote and directed the episode " Dead Freight, " for which he was individually nominated for the 2013 WGA Award in the Best Episodic Drama category and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.
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On August 12, 2012, the railroad was featured in the " Dead Freight ", in which one of the railroad's locomotives was delayed at a highway crossing in order to facilitate theft of 1, 000 gallons of the industrial chemical methylamine from a tank car near the end of the train.
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Alan Sepinwall of HitFix called " Dead Freight " a " great episode ", stating : " So much fun, and then such a devastating but not unfair gut punch at the end . " Sean T . Collins of " Rolling Stone " called the episode " harrowing, heartbreaking, magnificent television ".