inland

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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

He bought his summer cottage “House of Cards” about 17 years ago for $600,000 and since then spent roughly the same amount to move it 75 feet inland.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

This includes several separate strikes on the key Baltic Sea ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk as well as an attack on the nearby inland Kirishi oil refinery.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Up to 250,000 barrels per day of oil-demand losses are possible in April if inland stocks are low, they said.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

Then he struck the shore and turned south, keeping outside the breakers and inland of the islands, until he found Popham and rowed up the shining waters of the Kennebec.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt