Sentences with phrase «sea route»

However, this gain will be offset when the volume of trade increases because of the shorter sea route, making climate change slightly worse.

It exists at the threshold of history, a natural shipping hub and the meeting point of worldwide sea routes.

The northern sea route is already open in the summer months, but the paper predicts that it will be available all year round by 2030, or possibly sooner.

As new sea routes open and sea - level rises at increasing rates, it becomes ever clearer that amplified climate change in this remote corner of our planet will impact the lives of many around the world.

It's about the ports of Bodø, Tromsø, and Kirkenes standing a chance to making much more money in the future than they are right now, as God Almighty is in the good mood to opening the northern sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.

This skilled collaboration between merchant seafarers and naval personnel to ensure sea routes remain secure is proving invaluable for all involved.

This newly navigable icy Arctic sea route could be a major boon to the controversial whaling industry.

Currently, for instance, it assumes this role by protecting ships and sea routes in the Persian Gulf region against a potential Iranian threat.

This is a place where derelict former early warning / first strike runways, aircraft hangers and control towers were hastily converted into worker housing for the new polar sea route activity.

Detail: This is a place where derelict former early warning / first strike runways, aircraft hangers and control towers were hastily converted into worker housing for the new polar sea route activity.

Ports such as Pevek on the East Siberian Sea can expect to get busier as the northern sea route becomes increasingly ice - free.

The South China Sea, which is home to more than 200 specks of land, serves as a gateway to global sea routes where approximately $ 3.4 trillion of trade passes annually.

Rewardastir was strategically located on the direct sea route to India near the head of the Persian gulf on its eastern side and the province included Basra.

A thousand years ago sea routes linked empires in trade; during the 20th century markets and manufacturing have become truly global.

In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed from the Spanish port of Palos de la Frontera on his first voyage in search of a westward sea route to the spice - producing lands of Asia.

Mariners have been dreaming about using the Northwest Passage above Canada and the Northern Sea route above Siberia for centuries.

Sign up to Bemydom by entering A Russian tanker has cruised through the northern sea route without an icebreaker escort for the first time.

The coming year will also see expanded options for visiting the Azores by sea, including several Regent Seven Seas routes with Faial and São Miguel on the itinerary; their new Miami — Lisbon «Escape to Azores» itinerary is one of many responding to the destination's increasing popularity.

This is the shortest and quickest sea route to Orkney with your car.

But this beach also had a brush with history; it's located at the trail head of the Fort - to - Sea route followed by Corps -LSB-...]

The scrimshaw carving upon the bones offers nautical maps both real and imaginary, alluding to a common 19th century practice of engraving sea routes and sailors» adages onto the bones of sea mammals.

Global shipping firms are not only taking advantage of melting ice in the Arctic Ocean â $» they're actually helping to drive the meltdown that continues to unlock sea routes across the top of the world.

There are already some indications that the Greenland Sea route for Gulf Stream warming is in trouble.

This would be some ice - free sea route which would allow ships to sail from Europe to Asia through the Arctic north of Canada.

Gradually, European sailors deciphered the global pattern of winds and currents and took full advantage of them to establish new sea routes all over the world.

It's no great secret that one of the consequences of the Arctic ice melting is that at some point in the next decade or two, in all likelihood, a permanent sea route will open up.

If geography is destiny, this country, straddling Asia, Europe, and the oilfields of the Middle East, and controlling the all - important sea routes to and from the Black Sea, will not pussyfoot around the 21st century.

Competent in administration and guest handling, track record of error free navigation of big vessels through diverse sea routes.

The Strait of Malacca is the shortest sea route to move goods from the Persian Gulf to Asian markets.

This month a cruise ship with 1,000 passengers is scheduled to traverse the once iced - in Arctic sea route that connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

If the warming we ve seen in the high Arctic continues, then there is a possibility of a new sea route, a Northwest Passage if you will, Vice Admiral Paul G. Gaffney II, former chief of naval research and the former president of National Defense University, said about the study.

Comment from contributors reacting to news of a commercial ship poised to travel the northern sea route provide some fascinating perspectives on the implications of the Arctic Ocean's becoming a functional seaway:

The sea route from Egypt to India became very vital for the Roman trade and Augustus had to take steps to ensure its safety.

In the century and a half between 31 and 184 (A.D. 651 - 800) a considerable number of Arab and Persian businessmen came to China by the sea route.

The first Muslim visitors to China came by the sea route, following the example of the visit and preaching of Said and his party which laid the foundation stone of Islam in China.

The copper was sold to travelling merchants, Mansfeld being on the route from Nuremberg to Hamburg — Hamburg and the sea

Muslim merchants were in possession of most of the trade between the Far East and the West, and Islam was spreading along the sea routes to the Malay Peninsula and the islands of the east.

maritime and coastal shipping, as well as navigational aids, inland navigation, meteorological services, sea routes, and inland waterways used for general traffic;

Canadian archaeologists have located one of two ships lost at sea in 1845 during an expedition to chart the Northwest Passage, a sea route that would snake through waterways at the northern edge of Canada, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Arctic Ocean.