seagoing

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Larger than 22,000 football fields, it handles transit each year of around 267 million tonnes of goods and is used by around 20,000 seagoing vessels and 50,000 inland vessels, according to its website.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Shipping traffic remains throttled in the Strait of Hormuz, a trade route off Iran’s coast that fully a third of the world’s seagoing oil exports traverse in a normal year.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

The work of running a port is a constant maintenance of channels, breakwaters, bridges, and the machinery of seagoing commerce.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2025

“Our wreck suggests a seagoing exchange was conducted west out of Syria and Canaan to southern Cyprus, Crete and other Greek lands.”

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024

The stars are the friends of explorers, then with seagoing ships on Earth and now with spacefaring ships in the sky.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan