Sentence examples for importance shipping from inspiring English sources

As the film explores, the rise in piracy is down to the combination of a "failed" but heavily armed state, the area's strategic importance (shipping routes pass the Somalia coast en route to the Suez Canal) and an international cargo trade willing to negotiate.

That would be hugely costly and politically difficult, given the importance of shipping to the region.

The geology of the site, he said, indicated that it was a coastal town and "at the time had a strategic importance" in shipping.

The Slaney finally enters Wexford Harbour, a sheltered inlet of more importance for shipping in the 19th century than at present.

Because of the importance of shipping in the bay, the crossing was sunk deep beneath the main shipping channels in tunnels at two points, each tunnel being more than a mile long.

From its beginnings as a port of call in the hide-and-tallow trade and, later, as the home port of the Pacific whale fishery, San Francisco has been acutely conscious of the importance of shipping.

With the growing importance of shipping on Lake Erie in the 19th century, Presque Isle became home to several lighthouses and what became a United States Coast Guard station.

This may be of particular importance for shipping AML samples from the hematology practices to the test laboratory.

With his law of buoyancy, he was able to determine whether a paraboloid (a shape similar to the nose cone of a jetliner) would float upright or tip over, a principle of utmost importance to ship designers, and Archimedes probably realized that the Roman ships were vulnerable as they came close to the city walls.

Its shipping importance led to its extensive channelization and dredging, destroying and degrading habitats.

The trail will also stress the birds' connection to the water, which has historic importance for shipping, fishing and whaling.