freight
noun
goods, cargo, or lading transported for pay, whether by water, land, or air.
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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The four survivors, in addition to burying all the bodies, had buried the copper bars the caravan had been freighting to Jannati Shahr.
From The Flying Legion by George Allan England