merchant fleet
Example Sentences
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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
During a conflict, China’s merchant fleet likely would be mustered for military purposes, the report said.
From Washington Times • Aug. 2, 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
The Royal Navy and Britain's merchant fleet, along with most others around the world, rely on satellites for navigation - but what happens if they don't work?
From BBC • Jul. 27, 2021
For the last time I crossed the ocean on one of the proud German liners, and, indeed, on the finest of our whole merchant fleet, the Vaterland.
From My Three Years in America by Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von
