Sentence examples for shipping close from inspiring English sources

There, navigable water brought shipping close to falls that provided power for manufacturing.

Nintendo has shipped close to 100 million Wiis, while Sony and Microsoft have each shipped about 70 million of their latest consoles.

Its spokesmen are complaining more loudly about America's habit of sending surveillance ships close to its shores.

Hunan Sunzone Optoelectronics, a two-year-old company, makes solar panels and ships close to 95 percent of them to Europe.

Nvidia has shipped close to 100 million processors with the new programmable interface, called Compute Unified Device Architecture, or CUDA.

Captain Schettino said the company ordered him to make the detour, and has insisted that he saved lives by steering the ship close to port after the accident.

Miranda is horrified to witness what she thinks is the drowning at sea of dozens of innocent people from a sinking ship close to shore.

He says he would "push the development of sea-based missile defense systems" so he could move ships close to Taiwan to defend it.

Captain Schettino's lawyer has said that his client saved "hundreds, if not thousands" of lives because he brought the ship close to shore after it hit a rock.

Should America sail a naval ship close to one of the reefs it "may very well force Beijing to respond forcefully," says Zhu Feng of the China Centre for Collaborative Studies of the South China Sea at Nanjing University.

His lawyer, Bruno Leporatti, said in a statement that his client had saved "hundreds, if not thousands" of lives because he brought the ship close to shore after it hit a rock.