Sentence examples for network of shipping from inspiring English sources

An extensive network of shipping canals and waterways links the major rivers.

The lowland is drained by the north-flowing Rhine, Ems, Weser, Elbe, and Oder rivers; a network of shipping canals and inland waterways connect the rivers from east to west.

Goods move along a network of shipping nodes and links (Lun & Browne 2009).

Over the network, semi-finished goods are shipped from origins to many demand points through a capacitated network consisting of shipping links and capacitated processing centers.

Building on examples from North America, it is proposed that a wider spatial scale threat-based approach should be adopted, and that a regional network of restrictions of shipping activities through the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) will more effectively reduce the risk of ship whale strikes.

For years, China has asserted a claim to a larger share of the South China Sea, but in April that esoteric argument became front-page news: satellite images revealed what became known as a Chinese "island factory," a network of ships and builders constructing two thousand acres of man-made islands out of previously uninhabited reefs and atolls.

The successful rescue effort was a collaboration between the Coast Guard, Navy and vessels participating in the Automated Mutual-Assistance Rescue System -- a Coast Guard-sponsored voluntary network of ships that participate in search-and-rescues.

Scientists at the two agencies relied on data collected by 6,300 land-based weather stations around the world, from research stations in Antarctica and from a network of ships and satellite-communicating buoys that dot the oceans.

But it lacked a distribution network to ship perishable bags of chips to grocery stores, so it directed its researchers to come up with a longer-lasting chip that could be distributed with P.& G.'s existing distribution network.

Companies with far-flung networks of shipping containers and trailers are testing the application, which uses optical character recognition software to identify various goods by reading letters, numbers and logos visible in the photos.

Seminal interpretations of the process of economic growth before the Industrial Revolution have pointed to the strategic importance of the rise of the Atlantic economy and the growth of cities linked to this, but have not really explained why Europeans were so efficient in organizing large international networks of shipping and trade.