transit
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Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei told reporters in Tehran "an understanding has been reached regarding the map of the transit route".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
“I would not recommend going deeply into hydrogen today,” said Derek Toups, deputy planning director of a small transit agency in Santa Cruz, when asked directly on a panel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Tehran signalled last week that it had agreed with Oman a route for ships to transit the strait and were finalising arrangements to jointly manage the waterway.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
The Wiener campaign described it as “the world’s first AI trained to say no to anything you ask,” intending to highlight her record on housing, transit, and other issues.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
Our technology is, so far, utterly incapable of such grand interstellar voyages, at least in reasonable transit times.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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But the route is only accessible during the time of the year when the ice is melted enough to allow transits without icebreakers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
In addition, Iran and Oman reportedly are trying to reach an agreement to resume transits through the strait.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Strait of Hormuz transits fell to eight on Thursday, down from an average of 30 last week and roughly 130 a day before the war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The number of ships using this Omani route grew to a peak of 28 vessels on 25 June, Kpler's data shows, overtaking the number of transits via the Iranian route.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
One morning when Ishmael was eight years old a pair of surveyors had showed up with their transits and alidades and knotted red flagging everywhere.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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Other shipping companies have transited the Arctic passage before, with Denmark's Maersk the first to do so in 2018.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Last year, 23 container ships transited through, up from 15 in 2024, according to shipping analysis from business insurer Allianz Commercial.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
About 20% of the world’s oil transited the waterway before the Iran war began.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Before the war, about 25% of the world’s seaborne oil trade transited through the strait.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
At the time of the appearance of the great comet of 1843, it was doubtful whether the comet had transited the sun’s disc.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
Environmental groups warn that increasing numbers of ships transiting the shorter NSR could accelerate loss of Arctic sea ice -- already made vulnerable by rising global temperatures.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
U.S. carriers aren’t scheduled to resume services to Israel until the fall at the earliest, meaning that Americans have to find other ways to get there, often transiting through Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The catering vehicle can then be seen transiting in the distance to the smaller C-32A aircraft.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
It adds that the vessel "is no longer transiting to Iran".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Every nation bears responsibility for the people and goods transiting its borders.
From National Strategy for Combating Terrorism February 2003 by United States. Executive Office of the President
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