oceangoing

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The war has strangled shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a U-bend-like chokepoint off the Iranian coast that acts as a highway for more than a third of the world’s oceangoing oil exports each year.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

Between the three, big oceangoing companies, combined passenger ticket sales are seen being almost 50% higher this fiscal year than in 2019.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

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

From New York Times • May 31, 2024

Salmon and oceangoing trout were severed from these pristine reaches of the river.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2023

The most isolated people on Earth in recent history were the Aboriginal Tasmanians, living without oceangoing watercraft on an island 100 miles from Australia, itself the most isolated continent.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond