merchant fleet

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Its vast merchant fleet and logistics industry play dual roles supporting the People’s Liberation Army’s ability to mobilize and carry domestic factory production to shoppers worldwide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

That is more than half of the global merchant fleet - and it is due next Friday.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025

Britain’s preemptive response destroyed most of Denmark’s merchant fleet, one of the largest in the world.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2023

“For the first time in decades there is no usual movement of the merchant fleet, no usual port functioning in Odesa,” he said in an overnight address.

From New York Times • May 10, 2022

Any foreign boat laden for Antwerp was obliged to discharge its cargo in Zeeland, the Dutch merchant fleet monopolizing the trade of the Scheldt.

From Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day by Cammaerts, Emile