Sentences with phrase «carrying trading ships»
In painting, photographs and videos we see it sluicing among islands, washing against shorelines, penetrating interiors, carrying trading ships and battleships, fishing boats and ferries.
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Several ships carrying cargoes of sorghum from the United States to China have changed course since trade disputes have increased between the two countries.
Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.
Argentina has persuaded South American trading bloc Mercosur to bar all ships carrying the Falklands flag.
Ships carrying African slaves and goods to the antebellum trading city also brought mosquitoes that flourished in the swampy bayous, spreading plagues of yellow fever and malaria.
Does the old cruise ship in another found print carry hints of pleasure, exile, or the slave trade?
Beluga has two other ships carrying goods along the northern sea route this summer, and the expectation is that such trade will expand given projections of Arctic summers with ever more open water and less sea ice.
In 2016, ships carried more than 10 billion tons of trade for the first time, according to UNCTAD.
Since 90 % of world trade by volume is carried by ship, the distance between ports is a vital consideration.
... As for possible routes of introduction of the virus, they mention BTV - positive ruminants imported either legally or illegally, virus - carrying midges transported by wind over hundreds of kilometers, accidental importation by ship or aircraft, contaminated vaccines and trade with the products of infected animals... Kampen and Werner conclude that «it is due to continuing globalization rather than to climate change that even central and northern Europe are at risk of new pathogens as well as vectors of disease entering and establishing.»»
«With 90 percent of world trade carried by sea, the global network of merchant ships provides one of the most important modes of transportation» of intrusive species, says the study, which also estimates that bioinvasion is responsible for about $ 120 billion in financial losses per year.
Airports handle less than 5 percent of international trade, but carry more of the high - value products, accounting for 35 percent of the value of commodities being shipped, according to JLL.