Sentence examples for maritime fleets from inspiring English sources

Other countries with sizeable maritime fleets include Norway, China and America.

Liberia's ship registry, which sells "flags of convenience" to the world's maritime fleets and has long been a major source of the country's revenue, was and still is administered by Americans.

Here once more are reminders of the heyday of King Minos and the triremes that routed the Persians at the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C. as well as the vessels of modern Greek maritime fleets.

The St. Lawrence Seaway accommodates all but the largest oceangoing vessels, making the upper St. Lawrence and Great Lakes area open to four-fifths of the world's maritime fleet.

Even more threatening to Asian countries than the historical claims are the stepped-up patrols by China's maritime fleet in the South China Sea.

Over the past year, China's maritime fleet has seized at least 22 Vietnamese fishing vessels, according to Vietnamese media reports.

Labor recognised that, even though these reforms were important for the economy, the arguments for maintaining a healthy Australian maritime fleet were much broader.

On the other hand, Mr. Bow had, however, advocated Government subsidy to save the maritime fleet as a symbol of national prestige.

The emphasis is on how to formulate an investment optimization problem where cargo operation, investment costs, cargo-handling capacity, cargo transportation network, and the world maritime fleet constraints are included.

The United States had to rely on nearly 300 foreign-flagged ships during the war, leading to the realization that the American-flagged maritime fleet — which boasted some 2,000 ships in the World War II era — was essentially disappearing from international waters.

Pentagon officials are making modifications to a leased cargo ship called the MV Cape Ray — part of the U.S. maritime reserve fleet — fitting it with machines that convert toxic chemicals into relatively harmless liquids.