Such was the power of the Belt pirates that most legitimate planetary trading fleets paid toll to guarantee safe passage.
These Anguillians earned a living with their vessels by running a trading fleet.
The trading fleet switched over to sailing up and down the islands for irregular cargo duties.
His heirs had made the Vorn Voyagers a great trading fleet.
Helikaon went on to establish a large trading fleet of 50 ships.
Our ferry was retracing, almost exactly, the route taken for 2,000 years by Gotland's adventurous trading fleets.
Paulinus tells me that plague often follows the trading fleet.
Most of the trading fleet were at sea, and it is the custom of the Sulcarmen to carry their families with them on long voyages.
They sent out great trading fleets, the biggest, most sophisticated ships on Earth, to exact tribute from other nations.
We're primarily a trading fleet, though we've letters of marque to attack the enemy in the New World.