The port of Nouméa handles the majority of ship traffic.
Accident investigations indicate that the majority of ship accidents are in one way or another caused by human error.
The overwhelming majority of ships that go from Libya to Italy are wooden fishing sloops or inflatable dinghies.
Apart from certain small craft built on inland waterways, which are launched sideways, the great majority of ships are launched stern first from the building berth.
The majority of ships designed for international voyages and powered by large two-stroke marine diesel engines use heavy fuel oil (HFO), which has the advantage of a low price compared to other types of fuel.
While IOM has so far organized 10 boat rotations that have evacuated nearly 2,000 migrants by sea from Yemen to Djibouti, the majority of ships carrying refugees away from the violence in Yemen are not organized by NGOs.
Lavis's design for the final viaduct passageway, which would be raised on concrete piers across the Meadowlands, included two vertical-lift bridges 35 feet above the Passaic and Hackensack rivers, sufficient for the majority of ships to pass underneath.
Although French Navy cruisers were periodically stationed on the islands, the majority of ships that preyed on British commerce from the islands were privateers, independently funded armed ships issued with letters of marque giving them permission to attack military and civilian ships belonging to the enemies of France.
For the majority of Americans, the dream of shipping your kids off to college and retiring to an oceanfront condo has become just that -- a dream.
By doing this, FairSearch argues that Google "disadvantages other providers, and puts Google's Android in control of consumer data on a majority of smartphones shipped today", adding that this "predatory distribution of Android at below-cost makes it difficult for other providers of operating systems to recoup investments in competing with Google's dominant mobile platform".
