Rose George Quotes

Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.

This new global economy, it's all based on the sea routes.

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

One of the reasons that New York became great was that it's serviced by many, many different rivers and waterways. You have the Atlantic Ocean connected virtually right to it, and it's serviced by the East River and the Hudson River and lots of tributaries.

We knowing the prosperity of these countries, and the welfare of their inhabitants depends principally on navigation and trade …

We should encourage the establishment of American steamship lines.

We believe it is important to have an organisational link in London, still the world's premier maritime centre.

London is the headquarters of the International Maritime Organisation, the location of the largest insurance market, and houses a significant ship-broking community, apart from the many other professional services related to shipping.

Ensuring ports are dredged is essential to securing America's place in global trade.

There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route.

The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.

We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales.

I hope to be the go-to person on international trade and industry. I think no one before me or after me will ever have so much knowledge about America's ports.

I've been in tankers for 50 years, and I like it. For me, it's still fun.

Denmark is a small nation of five million people, but our economy is completely dependent on our commercial fleet. Every family has some connection to it.

The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.

The sea is my business.

Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

He enters the port with a full sail.

All peoples should be assured of equitable access to markets and to essential raw materials.

We will establish trading posts throughout the world … cover the ocean with our merchant marine. Our institutions will follow the flag on the wings of commerce.