When Emperor Wu conquered Nanyue in what is now Southwest China and northern Vietnam in 111 BC, overseas trade was extended to Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, as maritime merchants traded Han gold and silk for pearls, jade, lapis lazuli, and glasswares.
After Silla and Japan reopened renewed hostilities in the late 7th century, most Japanese maritime merchants chose to set sail from Nagasaki towards the mouth of the Huai River, the Yangzi River, and even as far south as the Hangzhou Bay in order to avoid Korean ships in the Yellow Sea.
Maritime flows of merchant vessels among ports of the world have been recorded by the maritime insurance company Lloyd's List since the late sixteenth century, focusing primarily on the British fleet but since 1890, on any other.
In 1785 he married Rebecca Amory Payne, daughter of a wealthy merchant, maritime insurer, and director of the Bank of Massachusetts.
This blockade force also limited French trade and maritime communications, attacking merchant ships and individual warships seeking to resupply or reinforce the main French fleet.
The onset of the Revolution found the colonies with no real naval forces but with a large maritime population and many merchant vessels employed in domestic and foreign trade.
At first, the Virginia and Baltick was a raucous place a caffeine-fuelled assemblage of seamen, pirates, cutthroat middlemen, nouveau merchants, and maritime executives, each seeking some legitimate or unscrupulous advantage on the high seas.
Journalism in the 19th century attempted to ensure successful navigation of culturally diverse environments through scoops from traveling merchants and maritime personnel.
The island and its natural harbour were used by Arab merchants as a maritime trading centre from the 10th to the late 15th century.
An attempt to break Byzantium's dependence for food and maritime commerce on the Genoese merchants of Galata led to a Byzantine Genoese war, which ended in 1352 with a compromise peace.
