Sentence examples for ship transit from inspiring English sources
Formed by damming the Chagres River and flooding an area the size of Barbados, Gatún Lake is crucial to the canal, for each ship transit uses 52 million gallons of freshwater.
During World War II, Lane worked on Third Locks--a project to increase defense capability and ship transit capacity in the Panama Canal--as a member of the Naval Air Corps and the SeaBees Naval Construction Force.
My partner, in particular, took offense to the shipping delays, and while we had a good laugh over the Target tape and BJ's boxing, given what has become price-parity and improvements in ship transit time by other retailers, searching for other sellers of similar products is becoming more common than it used to be.
The Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institutions (HBOI) charges used to be around $12 000 a day for ship transit time, plus ~$4500 a day for diving with the submersible.
"The remainder of the passengers were transferred to Australian Customs Vessel Ocean Protector which then sailed westwards for two days to Ashmore where the ship transited through Ashmore Lagoon.
Ship transits through the Panama Canal's Miraflores Locks © Gaurav Sharma, 2018.
Each of these ship transits puts at risk human life, economy, and environment, and the risk is growing every year.
And in several of the past few years there have been more adventure cruises than government ships transiting the strait.
The administration official also criticized Iranian-armed Houthi forces in Yemen for attacking Emirati and Saudi ships and acting aggressively toward U.S. ships transiting the Red Sea.
Armed security guards on many of the ships transiting pirate-infested waters have helped too.In this section Breaking ground A warmer welcome Westward Ho! ReprintsBut the pirates could still make a comeback.
There is much at stake in the United States relationship with Egypt, including the Israel-Egypt peace treaty (Israel's priority), counterterrorism cooperation, priority treatment for ships transiting the Suez Canal, overflight rights for planes to and from Afghanistan.
