"ocean trading" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the trading of goods by sea, or the shipping of goods across an ocean. For example, "The port city was bustling with ocean trading and ships from all over the world."
These contacts diminished with the rise of Islam, and the east coast became part of the Indian Ocean trading network.
People from the Middle East, Asia and Europe have visited the Indian Ocean trading center for thousands of years.
Malacca also served as the regional centre for the propagation of Islam and as the eastern terminus of the Indian Ocean trading network.
The dissemination of Islam was intimately linked to the florescence of the great Indian Ocean trading routes that connected China through the Strait of Malacca to India, the Middle East, and eastern Africa.
Ocean trade also can reach Concepción del Uruguay directly by the Uruguay River.
This city was a nexus point for Indian Ocean trade and a site of encounter for many hundreds of years.
Much of the Indian Ocean trade was local and, until the Portuguese incursion, had been conducted by Arabs or at least by Muslims.
The Port Authority estimates that ocean trade accounts for $23 billion in economic activity annually and provides, directly or indirectly, jobs for 166,500 workers in the 17-county metropolitan region.
Mediterranean lands lost their commercial function as intermediaries between Europe and Asia, and, for more than two and a half centuries, the Mediterranean Sea remained a backwater of world ocean trade and traffic.
It was important as an outlet for ivory and slaves, as a way station for Indian Ocean trade, and as an avenue of approach to South African diamond fields and goldfields.
She received her doctorate from Oxford University and was previously textile curator at the Ashmolean Museum, where she organized exhibitions on Asian and Islamic textiles, early Indian Ocean trade, and the theme of pilgrimage.
