6 sentences with 'shipping'
Example sentences and phrases with the word shipping and other words derived from it.
• « There is even evidence that the Hittites enacted the world's first embargo on shipping and goods against the Mycenaeans in retaliation for the latter's meddling in Hittite affairs. »
• « As trade recovered after the end of the Middle Ages, the Greeks re-established their commercial shipping network across the Mediterranean, and their colonies soon played a vital role. »
• « One effect of Arab shipping is that Islam spread along the sea routes beyond the political control of any of the Arab empires and kingdoms to come; today the largest and most predominantly Muslim country is Indonesia, thanks to Muslim traders who carried their faith along the trade routes. »
• « By 1533, Spanish forces were in control of the empire and began shipping huge quantities of gold bullion to Spain. »
• « The Dutch served as middlemen in European trade, shipping and selling such things as timber from Russia, textiles from England, and wine from Germany, and also increasingly as bankers in Europe. »
• « The results of this war, another British victory, were far-reaching: France lost its Canadian possessions, including the entire French-speaking province of Quebec, lost almost all its territories in India, and Britain gained dominance of commercial shipping to the Americas. »