merchant fleet
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Its vast merchant fleet and logistics industry play dual roles supporting the People’s Liberation Army’s ability to mobilize and carry domestic factory production to shoppers worldwide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
“For the first time in decades there is no usual movement of the merchant fleet, no usual port functioning in Odesa,” he said in an overnight address.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2022
“Deploying container-launched missiles on its merchant fleet would significantly enhance China’s warfighting capabilities,” according to retired Navy Capt. Raul Pedrozo, writing n the current issue of journal International Law Studies.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 4, 2022
The Royal Navy and Britain's merchant fleet, along with most others around the world, rely on satellites for navigation - but what happens if they don't work?
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2021
The frigates, which had convoyed the merchant fleet, were taken higher up the river, and a thousand of their seamen came down, from Quebec, to man the batteries and gunboats.
From With Wolfe in Canada The Winning of a Continent by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
