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
Guy Platten is the secretary general of the International Chamber of Shipping, which is made up of national ship-owning associations, collectively representing 80% of the world's merchant fleet.
From BBC • May 14, 2024
Britain’s preemptive response destroyed most of Denmark’s merchant fleet, one of the largest in the world.
From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2023
“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
Those of the ship’s boats that were not smashed were lowered, and further assistance was sent for from the merchant fleet, and none too soon either.
From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Stables, Gordon
