"maritime affairs" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to matters related to the ocean, such as shipping, fishing, and navigation. For example, you could say, "The Minister of Maritime Affairs is responsible for overseeing all activities on the sea."
Among her cabinet nominees only the minister for women and minister for maritime affairs are women.
His buyers, the United Nations investigation showed, included his newly appointed deputy maritime affairs commissioner, Sanjivan Ruprah, a Kenyan.
But Yemen's minister of transport and maritime affairs said the parts might have come from the tanker's own rescue boat.
Maria Damanaki, the commissioner for maritime affairs and fisheries, said in a statement that the fund would "increase economic growth and create jobs in the sector.
And in Europe, the E.U. commissioner for maritime affairs and fisheries, Maria Damanaki, has said that pollution in the Mediterranean Sea has reached "alarming proportions".
Jane Lubchenco, the administrator of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and Maria Damanaki, the European Union's commissioner for maritime affairs and fisheries, announced the deal in Washington.
Korean government (especially ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime affairs) selected seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination technology as one of global top 5 technologies which will bloom Korean economy in 2006.
Karmenu Vella, European commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, said that land degradation and desertification is forcing hundreds of thousands to move from their homes.
It generated a steady flow of revenues, averaging about $18 million a year, to Liberia's Bureau of Maritime Affairs in the 1990's.
Under cover of darkness, a group of 49 passengers had used a rope to clamber down the side of the Cypriot-flagged Ionian King, the Ministry of Maritime Affairs said in a statement.
But 71 years ago politics did dictate one such closure, and a group of biologists, led by Doug Beare at the European Commission's Office of Maritime Affairs, has now taken advantage of it.
