oceangoing

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The U.S. activist investor said late Tuesday that its significant investment reflected its belief in the Japanese company’s strength in shipping and its standing as a major owner of oceangoing vessels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

The war has strangled shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a U-bend-like chokepoint off the Iranian coast that acts as a highway for more than a third of the world’s oceangoing oil exports each year.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

“We do not know if the ship was oceangoing, meaning that it crossed over the North Sea to England,” Dr. Grønnesby said.

From New York Times • May 31, 2024

Climate change is anticipated to make more streams uninhabitable for salmon and oceangoing trout.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2024

Geography didn’t catch up to Eratosthenes until true oceangoing ships proved his calculations directly, almost two thousand years after he was born.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro