Sentence examples for accommodate vessels from inspiring English sources

All locks are 623 feet long and able to accommodate vessels of 1,500 tons.

Nigeria has no deepwater port so can only accommodate vessels a quarter the size of the world's largest ships.

With a depth of 2 metres (6.5 feet), it can accommodate vessels of up to 1,000 tons.

The mouth of the deepwater channel requires frequent dredging and cannot accommodate vessels larger than 10,000 tons.

But the businesses along the river enlisted the War Department to demand that the bridge rise to 135 feet to accommodate vessels of any size.

Its natural harbour, which can accommodate vessels of 19.5-foot (6-metre) draft, exports palm produce, timber (mostly obeche), rubber, cocoa, copra, and piassava fibre.

Tombo Island, the site of the original settlement, is linked to the peninsula by a 328-yard (300-metre) causeway; it contains Conakry's deepwater harbour (accommodating vessels of 36-foot [11-metre] draft), which exports alumina (treated bauxite), bananas, oranges, pineapples, coffee, palm produce, and fish.

It was claimed that the jetty was capable of accommodating vessels of up to, although no such vessels existed at that time.

The canals were large enough to accommodate seagoing vessels.

Several ports in the Mekong delta are scheduled for expansion to accommodate oceangoing vessels.

It also hopes to deepen the Elbe River to accommodate bigger vessels and to regain market share from deeper-water Rotterdam.