ocean trade

At the same time long-distance ocean trade was shifting from sail to steam.

It is easy to sail south and link up with the Indian Ocean trade.

New England shipping and ocean trade were reviving after a slump that followed the war.

Both of these factors worked in tandem, making control over Indian Ocean trade extremely expensive.

She initially joined the Home Fleet and was used for ocean trade protection duties.

More ships in the world's ocean trade were registered in Liberia than anywhere else.

In this period, the Silk Road cities began to decline as ocean trade flourished.

Ports are often closer together than in ocean trade, so cargo capacity is more important than speed.

Indian Ocean trade routes were sailed by Arab traders.

Burma was vitally involved in the Indian Ocean trade.

The Indian Ocean trade started from ancient times and strengthened during the medieval times.

It specialized in the Pacific Ocean trade, especially the importing of goods from China.

The French and English were each seeking to control lucrative Indian Ocean trade routes.

Like the Cavendish class, they were mainly employed on the ocean trade routes, also seeing fleet service in the Far East.

Indian Ocean trade served an important role in history, and has been a key factor in East-West exchanges.

He sees him as an equal and a potential ally in gaining a stranglehold on as much ocean trade as possible.'

Since antiquity, Indian Ocean trade had a significant role and led to the development of Roman trade with India.

Over thousands of years of human migrations and the rise of ancient civilizations, seafaring exploration led to ocean trade routes.

El Niño happens when tropical Pacific Ocean trade winds die out and ocean temperatures become unusually warm.

Sassanid merchants ranged far and wide and gradually ousted Romans from the lucrative Indian ocean trade routes.

Merka - Prominent medieval port city that collaborated with the Mogadishans in the Indian Ocean trade.

Arab merchants were the dominant carriers of Indian Ocean trade until the Portuguese forcibly supplanted them at the end of the 15th century.

Her research interests focus on the social history of material culture, with a focus on Indian Ocean trade during the pre-European and early European periods.

This change had begun in the previous century when ocean trade routes were established from Europe to India and China, circumventing the Silk Route.

Its people, the Malagasies, are descended from Indo-Malayan seafarers who'd arrived here on the Indian Ocean trade route over 2,000 years ago.