inland

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Larger than 22,000 football fields, it handles transit each year of around 267 million tonnes of goods and is used by around 20,000 seagoing vessels and 50,000 inland vessels, according to its website.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Farther inland, Riverside, Borrego and Paso Robles also hit record highs for the day of 93, 97 and 89 degrees, respectively.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

This includes several separate strikes on the key Baltic Sea ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk as well as an attack on the nearby inland Kirishi oil refinery.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

The name suggests altitude, and this whitewashed village of barely 2,000 in the Algarve region is only a half-hour’s drive inland from the beach town of Albufeira and its package-tour mobs but feels centuries away.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Fire across the ridge, down the mountainside, spreading inland, tree by tree, burning like massive candles, pop-pop-popping and falling, striking more trees, burning ground cover, eating the landscape alive.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes