seaway

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“We’ve been shipping in open seaways since the 1970s, so the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is the piece that is changed this time,” Shipp said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

Mumbai has been given a makeover: Suspension bridges span its seaways, as well as its infamous slums, and new metro lines have been carved beneath its Art Deco and Indo-Saracenic facades and rumbling commuter railways.

From New York Times • May 31, 2024

Under one scenario the collapse would have allowed three of the populations to come together once again via seaways, leaving the East Antarctica octopuses isolated.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 20, 2023

Milley, speaking with the Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, stressed that the Baltic Sea is a strategically important body of water - “one of the great seaways of the world.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 5, 2022

The American Navy came in and did splendid service off the south coast of Ireland, in the Bay of Biscay, and along the North Atlantic seaways between French and British and American ports.

From Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas by Wood, William Charles Henry