Helmut Sohmen Quotes

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.

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

We should encourage the establishment of American steamship lines.

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.

In my home State of Texas, the Port of Houston operates as the United States' top port for foreign tonnage and our second largest for total tonnage, so I know how important this bill is for the protection of the American people.

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

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

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

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.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.

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.

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

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

The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, and it is not helpful for any nation to suggest that it would attempt to restrict traffic through the strait.

Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran.

To remove as much as possible the occasions of making war, it might be better for us to abandon the ocean altogether, that being the element whereon we shall be principally exposed to jostle with other nations

let it be considered that the plantations employ many hundreds of shipping and many thousands of seamen, which must be in diverse respects an advantage to England, being an island, and by nature fitted for navigation above any country in Europe

[It is the] duty of the United States to assert and maintain such supervision and authority over any inter-oceanic canal across the isthmus that connects North and South America as will protect our national interest.

The United States Navy has kept the sea lanes open for the entire world.

The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.

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

The Jones Act is an important tool to maintain Northeast Florida's domestic ship repair industry, which is so vital to our Navy and national security.

Pirates worked to avoid violence and fighting.

The high seas - in other words, the oceans beyond the 200-mile national limits - are a lawless realm.