Maritime Transport Quotes

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

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

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.

I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is Denmark's largest company, its sales equal to 20 percent of Denmark's GDP; its ships use more oil than the entire nation.

As a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security's Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security, it is my responsibility to help our country adapt to and overcome the threats that COVID-19 presents to air travel.

My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

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

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

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

He enters the port with a full sail.

My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on freight boats and then on ferries crossing to Skye, Barra, Uist, the small isles and Iona.

The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.

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.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

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

We should encourage the establishment of American steamship lines.

It is impossible for any power to become eminent in commerce, without excelling in manufactures and navigation. America is capable of supporting and increasing both …

Greece should really be a shipping hub for the world it really should be a shipping hub for the entire world not just for Europe.

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.

As the CEO of a global company I think countries are foregoing opportunities by having cabotage rules.

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

Shipping by water is cheaper than by rail, which is cheaper than by truck.

A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.

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.