Sentence examples for draft vessels from inspiring English sources

Deep draft vessels have already departed the terminals.

With the Panama Canal being widened, he notes, the world's shipping companies are all rethinking their routes and strategies, because many major ports aren't deep enough to accommodate the larger, deeper draft vessels now being built.

A deep draft vessel like the Merrimack, he finally replied, with her heavy armor, wouldn't make it up the Potomac past Kettle Bottom Shoals, and that's 50 miles away.

Angiogenic sprouting forms a draft vessel network that subsequently undergoes remodeling to become functional (Potente et al., 2011).

Deep-draft ships were necessary to cross the ocean, and shallow-draft vessels were required to bridge the water gap.

It drains northeastward into the Patos Lagoon through the São Gonçalo Canal and is navigable by shallow-draft vessels.

It utilizes sounds, bays, lagoons, rivers, and canals and is usable in many portions by deep-draft vessels.

Concordia's port is one of the points of transfer to the shallow-draft vessels that ply the upper Uruguay River.

"This goes right to the history of places like Greenport and Port Jefferson and their suitability for deep-draft vessels," Mr. Kapell said.

Nantucket faced competition: New Bedford, with its deeper harbor, offered an attractive alternative to the new deep-draft vessels, which had a hard time crossing Nantucket's notorious sandbar.

The river is navigable by shallow-draft vessels for approximately 60 miles (95 km) upstream from the bay and for several stretches along its middle and upper course.