The term "maritime hub" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an area that is an active center for various activities related to water transportation and trade. For example, "Singapore is a major maritime hub, with one of the busiest ports in the world."
Last year, however, Cunard switched the registrations of its ships from their historic home port of Southampton, England, to the anything-goes maritime hub of Hamilton, Bermuda.
While little remains of the old city center, which was bombed during World War II, there are many activities for tourists of all ages, most of them related to Brest's status as a maritime hub.
Zanzibar has been the crossroads of the eastern seas since Phoenician times, strategic maritime hub for the macabre contrast of spice and slave trades; where African, Arab, Persian and Indian culture entwine, with a final layer of British colonialism.
The UAE, a busy maritime hub, has seen a rise in abandoned ships in its waters in the past two years, due to the downturn in the shipping industry, according to the Federal Transport Authority (FTA) in the country.
Snaked by ferries and shipping tankers, it defines the city as one of the world's great maritime hubs.
The boost to the "maritime capacity" of the UK Border Force will include the provision of extra patrol boats and three new maritime hubs to protect Britain's coastline and deter migrants from making the perilous journey across the Channel.
It needed to build on the Gold Rush spirit in California; finish a transcontinental railway to carry people and freight from one side of America to the other; dig a waterway through Central America for ships to pass through; and acquire Pacific territories like Hawaii and Midway as maritime hubs of trade and security.
Singapore's status as a maritime transhipment hub may be negatively affected with vessels bypassing the Malacca Strait all together.
Vast territories with little to no state presence and coasts on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans made the country a prime maritime shipping hub.
Experts say the discoveries are of great importance, since they prove that the Fourni archipelago, which is located along an ancient trade corridor between Greece, Egypt and Cyprus, was a maritime commercial hub during ancient times. .
The three extra maritime coordination hubs in Cornwall, the Thames Estuary and the Humber being set up over the summer are designed to improve the use of intelligence and create more flexible response teams including increased coverage of smaller ports.
