Sentence examples for shipping importance from inspiring English sources

Its shipping importance led to its extensive channelization and dredging, destroying and degrading habitats.

Investments in banking and railroads provided additional sources of wealth, while shipping lost importance during the mid-19th century.

As world economic activities intensify and trade barriers fall, the formation of viable strategic alliances in the liner shipping industry gains importance and accelerates of necessity.

That would be hugely costly and politically difficult, given the importance of shipping to the region.

The geology of the site, he said, indicated that it was a coastal town and "at the time had a strategic importance" in shipping.

The Slaney finally enters Wexford Harbour, a sheltered inlet of more importance for shipping in the 19th century than at present.

Because of the importance of shipping in the bay, the crossing was sunk deep beneath the main shipping channels in tunnels at two points, each tunnel being more than a mile long.

From its beginnings as a port of call in the hide-and-tallow trade and, later, as the home port of the Pacific whale fishery, San Francisco has been acutely conscious of the importance of shipping.

With the growing importance of shipping on Lake Erie in the 19th century, Presque Isle became home to several lighthouses and what became a United States Coast Guard station.

This may be of particular importance for shipping AML samples from the hematology practices to the test laboratory.

Odyssey's study hinted at the ship's importance to history, which promises to make recovered artifacts more valuable.