waterway
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Any attacks in the waterway are likely to make it less attractive to shippers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
It seized control of significant new territory across Yemen's south-western coast last week, including areas overlooking the crucial Bab al-Mandab waterway, strengthening its ability to enforce its declared blockade of Saudi shipping.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Disrupting the flow of oil out the waterway would cripple Saudi oil exports already bottled up in Hormuz, and risk spiking global oil prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Meanwhile, Oman said it had postponed talks between Iran and Gulf states on the future of the strategic waterway, a vital route for a large share of the world's seaborne oil trade.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Early one morning they hired a boat to row them into the Ganges River, a waterway sacred to Hindus.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Clean Up Bristol Harbour was launched in September 2016 in a bid to remove plastic pollution from in and around Bristol's waterways.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
The bulk of the canal's construction work involved widening, deepening and modifying existing waterways, while a small section had to be excavated, Xinhua said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
River levels also fell sharply, with streamflow reaching record lows in waterways including the Rio Fajardo in northeastern Puerto Rico.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
The author begins with the observation that all three monumental waterways originate near the Alpine pass of St. Gotthard, about 100 miles southeast of Basel, Switzerland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Little clusters of debris were slowing down the waterways.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
