merchant fleet
Example Sentences
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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
During a conflict, China’s merchant fleet likely would be mustered for military purposes, the report said.
From Washington Times • Aug. 2, 2023
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
And the normal loss of the British merchant fleet in peace time amounts to between 700,000 and 800,000 tons.
From In the World War by Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf
