Unlike inlets to the north, the Western Schelde continues to be kept open to the North Sea as an important and very crowded shipping route to Antwerp, Belg., and destinations on canalized waterways farther north, south, and east.
France's defence minister, Hervé Morin, worries about all the new submarines that will soon be lurking in the region's shallow and crowded shipping lanes.
Writing in the state-run newspaper Al Ahram, one Islamist columnist has compared Egypt to a large and crowded ship, and the Rebel campaigners to pirates who have tied up the captain-president and are "spreading lies" among the passengers.
The crowded ship has appealed for shelter from 7-meter high waves and icy winds amid treacherous conditions, as the rescued migrants hunker under tarpaulins on deck.
Instead we were treated to set after set of relentlessly enjoyable music and a crowd — shipped in, largely, from across Yorkshire — who were willing to absorb every last beat of it.
The harbour, crowded with shipping, is bounded on one side by a mole of modern construction, on the other by the jetty which 30,000 Christian captives toiled to build less than 400 years ago.
At U.S. Global Exotics, Inc., thousands of animals were crowded into shipping crates, pillow cases, litter pans and even 2-liter soda bottles.
Foreign traders crowded it, ships came from the Mediterranean as early as 1300.
Its world-famous cattle graze at the dairy farms in the Rokko Mountains, which slope gently into a bay crowded with ships.
Today, the Guadalquivir looks like an ordinary stretch of water, but when Velázquez was growing up, Seville's river was crowded with ships laden with treasure.
Before the 1970s, these wharves would have been crowded with ships and dockers, some knee-deep in the vessels' holds, shovelling, hauling and rolling Britain's imports ashore and her exports aboard.
