The bay saw heavy shipping traffic and thus a high-level drawbridge with long approaches was required.
Constant shipping traffic along the coast allowed individuals to move from one plantation or town to another in search of work.
The flooding has stalled commercial shipping traffic on the river for two weeks or longer.
However, should climate change substantially shrink sea ice, they could be threatened by increased shipping traffic.
It is now a popular vantage point for watching shipping traffic on the Tyne.
By the early twentieth century shipping traffic has increased and the existing piers in the city area were inadequate.
It is probably the shipping traffic on the strait which has generated power and riches through the ages.
The city has a port but much of the shipping traffic is taken by larger cities along the coast.
Woods nodded his head as he looked around for other shipping traffic that could be a factor on the trip in to the harbor.
In 1914, a western branch was completed to Weston, adding more apple shipping traffic.