oceangoing

Look at the Jones Act, which is still on the books decades after ruining the oceangoing shipbuilding industry that it was supposed to protect.

SINGAPORE—China has put its largest and most sophisticated aircraft carrier into active service, boosting Beijing’s quest to create a formidable oceangoing navy that can challenge U.S. power in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Building oceangoing vessels in the U.S. now costs four or five times more than building them in China or South Korea.

“We do not know if the ship was oceangoing, meaning that it crossed over the North Sea to England,” Dr. Grønnesby said.

To compete for colonies, Germany’s leaders decided that they also needed a modern oceangoing navy that could challenge Britain’s centuries-old command of the seas.