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The English Channel connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Southern part of the North Sea and is one of the busiest shipping areas in the world with ships going in numerous direction: some are passing through in transit from the Southwest to Northeast (or vice versa) and others serving the many ports around the English Channel, including ferries crossing the Channel.
The Corinth Canal (Greek: Διώρυγα της Κορίνθου, romanized: Dioryga tis Korinthou) is an artificial canal in Greece that connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea.
MarineTraffic is a maritime analytics provider, [1] which provides real-time information on the movements of ships and the current location of ships in harbors and ports. [2] A database of information on the vessels includes for example details of the location where they were built plus dimensions of the vessels, gross tonnage and International ...
The World Ocean. For example, the Law of the Sea states that all of the World Ocean is "sea", [8] [9] [10] [b] and this is also common usage for "the sea". Any large body of water with "Sea" in the name, including lakes. River – a narrow strip of water that flows over land from a higher elevation to a lower one
List of merchant navy capacity by flag is a list of the world foremost fleets of registered trading vessels ranked in both gross tonnage (GT) and deadweight tonnage (DWT) sorted by flag state. The table is based on the annual maritime shipping statistics provided by the British Government and the Department for Transport .
Sea traffic management (STM) is a methodology, developed by the Swedish Maritime Administration [1] MonaLisa project, endorsed by the European Commission, [2] sought to define a set of systems and procedures to guide and monitor sea traffic in a manner similar to air traffic management.
During 2010–2011, in terms of ship categories, Greek companies had 32.5% of the world's tankers [12] and 23.8% of the world's bulk carriers (in dwt). [12] An additional equivalent of 20.05% of the world's tanker dwt was on order, [12] with another 14.1% of bulk carriers also on order. [12] Shipping is one of the country's most important ...
Economy of Greece; Overview; Agriculture; Banking (Bank of Greece, National Bank of Greece, list) Communications; Companies; Energy; Industry; Ports; Shipping; Stock Exchange (companies listed) Tourism; Transport; History; Economic history of Greece and the Greek world; Greek economic miracle; Greek debt crisis; Related; Brands; Greece and the ...