Sentence examples for shipping activities from inspiring English sources
With more water to navigate, Arctic shipping activities have increased, as well as opportunities for oil and gas development, further threatening the animals' habitat.
Other significant threats include coastal development, agricultural run-off pollution, port-based shipping activities, illegal fishing and outbreaks of the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish.
In an emailed statement on Wednesday, ConocoPhillips China said its workers quickly addressed the leaks and that there was no apparent impact on wildlife, fishing or shipping activities".
It is a model for the floating communities the city hopes might one day repopulate the docklands, whose traditional shipping activities are moving elsewhere.
A merchant whose shipping activities included privateering, Sears first exhibited his patriot leanings when the Stamp Act crisis erupted in 1765.
Increasing activities of Arctic industries, such as petroleum or increased shipping activities, have significant potential to place a further burden on subpopulations already weakened by the cumulative impacts of habitat destruction.
"We are seeing pretty much undisrupted shipping activity," says Peter Sand of BIMCO, the world's largest international-shipping association.Dealing with uncertainty has become a normal part of business for shippers transiting the Middle East.
An hour south of Amsterdam, at the port of Rotterdam, Europe's largest, shipping activity is expected to be flat this year.
Meanwhile, shipping activity continued as normal on Thursday at Egypt's largest port in Alexandria, a maritime official told Ahram in the same report.
Shipping activity was limited in the area of the spill but the Arthur Kill "remains open to ship traffic on a case-by-case basis until further notice," the Coast Guard said.
United Parcel Service Inc., the package delivery company, cut its third-quarter earnings estimates yesterday, citing a sharp decline in shipping activity immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
