Sentences with phrase «maritime trade»

Hailing from a history based on maritime trade, the Southwest is now well - known for its aeronautic industry.

World trade has always depended on ocean transport and the world's navies grew up in order to protect these maritime trade routes.

Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute and author of Bully of Asia: Why China's Dream Is the New Threat to World Order, told SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Tuesday's Breitbart News Tonight that China could «choke off trade» and «control access» to a critical maritime trade route if allowed to control the South China Sea.

Given how the naval protection of maritime trade is an ancient raison d'etre for navies, which traditionally have also sought to have the best knowledge of weather for tactical advantage, plus the increase in high seas piracy (coincidentally since not too long before when the data went anonymous) where it's to a navies advantage for not allowing resourceful pirates to know whether their ships have been in the area even in the last few days, I wouldn't discount the anonymising being primarily for military reasons.

However it also focuses on the various industries, processes and people that comprise global maritime trade: dockworkers loading and unloading ships, fishermen inspecting their hauls, butchers hawking their meat at a market, and government officials looking entirely uninterested.

Ursula von Rydingsvard's sculptures travel to Yorkshire, Matthew Ritchie expands the space of painting and drawing, Shahzia Sikander tackles maritime trade and imperial control, and more in this week's roundup.

Tulum, a coastal citadel built on top of forty - foot cliffs overlooking the Caribbean Sea, was once a hub of maritime trade in the region.

During the Mayan high times there was a flourishing maritime trade along the Yucatan coast.

During the Postclassic period, it was thought that this trade had reached its zenith, but we knew relatively little about the mechanics of maritime trade before that time.

Finding that the Maya had been heavily involved in maritime trade during the Classic period really was not a great surprise.

However, marine resource exploitation and salt - working activities have been reported (Graham and Pendergast 1989) It is reasonable to assume that several of the mound constructions have a significant Late Classic component and participated in the maritime trade system in much the same way as the sites on the northern end of the island.

While other great centers, such as La Milpa and Rio Azul, were abandoned, Lamanai had the opportunity to become a funnel for forest and agricultural goods of the eastern Peten and northern Belize regions to enter the maritime trade system.

Whatever the cause, Ambergris Caye in the Postclassic period no longer seems to have had the important role in maritime trade which it enjoyed in the Classic period.

When the Ambergris Caye Project started, our interest was in learning about the maritime trade of the Maya which must have occurred on Ambergris.

During this period Ambergris continued to participate in the maritime trade system.

This space, a former maritime trade and repair shop, has been meticulously rehabilitated to showcase its industrial aesthetic and stunning Golden Gate and Bay views.

Ambergris Caye has been the hub of the areas maritime trade for centuries.

Tour of Salalah including the Museum of the Frankincense Land, covering the history of the ancient Frankincense trail and maritime trade and shipbuilding industry, a photo stop at the Sultan Qaboos Mosque, Al Husn Palace and stroll through the Haffah souq.

«More than 75 percent of all U.S trade is transported by water, making maritime trade a critical part of our country's economy,» said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.

During the Medieval period (7th - 15th century AD), maritime trade took off between this region and other areas of the Indian Ocean.

The competing models are, on the one hand, a very early arrival of Asian species starting around 3000 BC as suggested by some previous studies, and on the other hand, a more modest, mid-first millennium AD arrival in connection with the archaeologically - confirmed maritime trade routes.

Eight of the nine amphorae bore DNA from a complex mixture of foods, leading Foley to support the argument made by some scholars that amphorae were reused for maritime trade rather than being discarded after one voyage.

So says Nautilus International, a maritime trade union which was already campaigning for such outsize leisure vessels to be made safer.

Ng noted that Singapore's maritime trade and port traffic also grew under the influence of the oil refineries.

Understanding their genetic origins could give an indication about the history of international maritime trade.

It's a vital contribution to the question of what caused the Viking Age: it looks as though towns and maritime trade may have been the engine driving all this change.»

The pattern held for plague reintroductions via both land routes and maritime trade networks.

It was a large - scale massacre of the «Latin» (Roman Catholic) merchants and their families, who at that time dominated the city's maritime trade and financial sector.

Four of the world's poorest countries are landlocked, with no direct access to maritime trade.

Contract talks between the two sides have dragged on for nine months, leading to labor tensions, chronic cargo congestion and shipping delays at ports along the coast that collectively handle nearly half of all U.S. maritime trade and more than 70 percent of imports from Asia.

In terms of the sheer amount of goods moved, the maritime trading system rivaled its more famous inland relative, the Silk Road.

Ancient Phoenicia was known as «the land of palms» and no doubt dates sustained them as they sailed around the Mediterranean and became the predominate maritime trading culture of the time.

Not exact matches

Remember, the Chinese realize that no trade concession on their part can wish away acute U.S. - China questions, such as Taiwan, contested maritime borders in the South China Sea, the sequels to the Korean War and «strategically competitive» issues in the Indo - Pacific region and beyond.

One such trade route is the maritime path for transporting oil from Persian Gulf exporters to East Asian consumers.

«Trust in West Coast ports is at an all - time low, and the perception of supply chain risk is at an all - time high,» said Peter Tirschwell, chief maritime analyst at the JOC Group, a supplier of U.S. sea - borne trade data.

The Canadian Encyclopedia states: «Prosperity came from wooden shipbuilding, the fisheries, forests and maritime carrying trades.»

The Belt and Road Initiative is intended to improve the infrastructure of overland and maritime routes to drive trade and capital flows between the east and the west.

Financial institutions, the next market for Windward's unique data platform, are hungry for advanced data solutions that can provide valuable trading opportunities by extracting faint trading signals from noisy datasets such as maritime information.»

Qatar and Iran agreed yesterday to set up a joint transport and communications committee to facilitate trade exchange, air and maritime transport between the two countries, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported.

This conversational style evening between Laura and Karen Oldfield, President and CEO, Halifax Port Authority, will help you to understand the complexity of changing US trade policy, how the NAFTA re-negotiation will likely play out, the importance of diversifying to new markets in challenging times and how it will all impact our economy in the Maritimes.

The original Silk Road was an ancient series of maritime and overland trade routes that connected Asia to Western Europe and beyond.

The Trade Winds that once blew British men - of - war safely into English Harbour now fuel one of the world's foremost maritime events, Sailing Week.

Aviation is the hub of a modern economy, maritime is the cash cow, given the normally huge revenue from ports in a globalised economy that thrives on international trade; and rail holds the key to truly modernising the Nigerian local economy, both in the mass transit of people; and mass movement of heavy bulk, at tolerable costs, and with least cost to road infrastructure.

Glass beads, filling a clay cup found in southern India, served as currency along some maritime and inland routes associated with the Indian Ocean trade network.

(Alopex lagopus) was introduced into the Aleutian Islands as a fur source following the collapse of the maritime fur trade at the turn of the 20th century.

Understanding vessel traffic in relation to marine conservation is critical, particularly given that maritime transport accounts for approximately 90 percent of all world trade.

The agreement, months in the making, came together after a dinner at Xi's official residence, following lengthy bilateral talks on contentious issues ranging from trade to maritime disputes.

A gallery of pictures and information about military and space - related wristwatches / pocket watches Our maritime traditions Dating back as far as the Bible, marine pilotage is one of the world's oldest trades.

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