The experience of an ocean transit has some similarities to driving across the continental United States.
The industrial nations of Europe, Asia and North America are the primary beneficiaries of free ocean transit.
For instance, Argo Tours, in Panama City, (011-507) 228-4348, fax (011-507) 228-1234, www.big-ditch.com, a partner of Panama Jones, in Clarita, Okla., (888) 726-2621, www.panama canal.com, offers full-day, ocean-to-ocean transits once a month and half-day transits each Saturday.
"They've got to support other types of transportation [like ocean and rail transit].
For a decade China has been busy in the Indian Ocean, a crucial transit zone for maritime trade between eastern Asia and the Middle East.
He had had a fascination with the Victorian naturalists and explorers since he was a kid, particularly Alfred Russel Wallace (whose collection of Amazonian specimens famously caught fire and sunk into the ocean while in transit back to Europe).
Several members showed up this week at the station after a 4-day transit of the Southern Ocean to prepare for the start of the penguins' breeding season later this month.
For example, the life-history of salmon balances the timing of numerous events during transit from headwaters to the ocean and back again.
If all goes according to plan, it will soon serve as a transit route for oil from the Indian Ocean to southern China, providing an alternative to the crowded Singapore Strait.
The city needs to build flood barriers and ocean surge gates and protect its electrical grid and transit system.
Mr Abbott's conservative government has deployed naval vessels to intercept asylum boats in the Indian Ocean and send them back to Indonesia, the most common transit country for people trying to reach Australia from south Asia and the Middle East.
