Sentence examples for ship technologies from inspiring English sources

There is a significant increase in the attention given to green maritime ship technologies due to the growing importance of sustainable operations.

Moreover, said Joe Hovorka, an analyst with the brokerage firm Raymond James, commercial and naval ship technology can differ greatly.

For more than 50 years, all cruise ships have been made in Europe or the Far East, where construction costs are lower and shipyards have pioneered the latest in cruise ship technology.

In 2009 it was refused an export licence to ship technology worth £0.8m to an unnamed Asia Pacific country, after the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills judged it could be used to commit human rights abuses.

Recent advances in Arctic ship technology make this plausible, especially the development of double-ended tankers that can steam through a metre of ice prow-first and a metre and a half stern-first.Faster development of Arctic resources, thanks to the NSR, will in turn lead to more shipping infrastructure, and no doubt eventually to Arctic container shipping.

In practice, the transition proved a relatively lengthy process that coincided with improvements to sailing ship technology that even briefly heralded a new clipper age.1 As it turned out, sailing ships continued to operate in the shipping market for about a century after the introduction of steamships.

Four sailors were killed.Hizbullah's success highlights the so-called "asymmetric" element of anti-ship technologies: striking a warship can be far less expensive and complex than operating and defending one.

Greater demand for environmentally friendly and economically efficient shipping technologies "is what the launch of ShippingEfficiency.org will help make possible," said Stephan Wrage, chairman of SkySails.

In both cases, improved shipping technologies, especially refrigeration, enabled the cities to grow.

The period 1950 1990 was chosen as it corresponds to drastic changes in shipping technologies, world trade patterns, and urban growth, with the container revolution emerging and spreading globally (Bernhofen et al. 2013; Guerrero and Rodrigue 2014), resulting in fostered competition and hierarchical tendencies among world ports (see also Slack 1993), as described in the third stage above.

The early 1900s saw the development of new packing, storage and shipping technologies that improved the lifespan and transportability of lettuce and resulted in a significant increase in availability.