Maritime and American privateers targeted unprotected shipping of both the United States and Britain respectively, further reducing trade.

Strong trade ties also made the region an important cultural center and established it as a base that would influence nearby kingdoms and regions in Burma, Sri Lanka, Maritime Southeast Asia, and Indochina.

The Tropical Maritime Airmass is a warm humid and unstable trade wind due to its warmth.

Maritime states were dependent on sea trade.

* Reidar Sveaas, director of P & O Maritime Ltd. and honorary consul to Auckland said in 2000 that excellent opportunities existed for New Zealand to trade with the world's second largest oil-producing country, Norway.

Genoa was one of the so-called " Maritime Republics " ( Repubbliche Marinare ), along with Venice, Pisa, and Amalfi and trade, shipbuilding and banking helped support one of the largest and most powerful navies in the Mediterranean.

Prior to the mid-1970s, most international conventions concerning maritime trade and commerce originated in a private organization of maritime lawyers known as the Comité Maritime International ( International Maritime Committee or CMI ).

Maritime trade was facilitated by a network of wells that provided fresh water to Cham and foreign ships along the coast of Champa and the islands of Cu Lao Cham and Ly Son.

To the annoyance of the Maritime Powers the Swedes now saw their rôle outside the great power-struggle of the Nine Years ' War, exploiting opportunities to increase their own maritime trade.

Suggesting the abandonment of fleet warfare, guerre d ' escadre, in favour of commerce-raiding, guerre de course, Vauban advocated the use of the fleet backed by individual shipowners fitting out their own vessels as privateers, aimed at destroying the trade of the Maritime Powers.

The Maritime Powers asked for no territory, but the Dutch were given a favourable commercial treaty, of which the most important provision was to relax regulations to favour Dutch trade and return to the French tariff of 1664.

Robert Crow ( born 13 June 1961 ), who is better known as Bob Crow, is a British trade union leader, the General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers ( RMT ) and a member of the General Council of the TUC.

In 7th to 15th century Maritime Southeast Asia, the Srivijaya and later Majapahit empire that controlled the sea lane in Southeast Asia, and exploited spice trade of spice islands as well as maritime trade route between India and China, can be considered thalassocracies.

Chinese maritime trade gazetteers mentioned a slew of different countries that came to trade in China, such as United States vessels docking at Canton in the " Yuehaiguanzhi " (' Gazetteer of the Maritime Customs of Guangdong ') published in 1839 ( reprinted in 1935 ).

Maritime trade played an extremely important role in the development of Funan, and the remains of what is believed to have been the kingdom's main port, Oc Eo ( O ' keo ) ( now part of Vietnam ), contain Roman as well as Persian, Indian, and Greek artifacts.

During the Maritime Strike of 1934, Smith Cove was nearly a battle zone ; shippers were scared, to the point where Seattle lost most of its Asian trade to Los Angeles.

* National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, a United Kingdom trade union

Among those who have joined the SA are leading indigenous activist, Sam Watson ; historian and author, Humphrey McQueen ; and some leading trade union figures such as Chris Cain of the Maritime Union of Australia and Craig Johnston who led a reform current in the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.

McDonnell is a leading member of a number of all-party groups within Parliament, including groups representing individual trade unions, such as the Public and Commercial Services Union ( PCS ), the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers ( RMT ), the Fire Brigades Union ( FBU ), the National Union of Journalists ( NUJ ) and justice unions such as NAPO.

The Maritime Customs Service administered the business of foreign trade and collection of tariff.

The Maritime Fur Trade was a ship-based fur trade system that focused on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska.

The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers ( RMT ) is a trade union in the United Kingdom which unionises transport workers.

The power of Pisa as a mighty maritime nation began to grow and reached its apex in the 11th century when it acquired traditional fame as one of the four main historical Maritime Republics of Italy ().

It began operation in 1976 as Southwind Maritime Center and is one of three public ports operated by the state of Indiana.

Camping, which began in Michilimackinac State Park in 1907, was halted in 1971 as a Maritime Park was opened in 1972 around the lighthouse.

At that time, the AMSA and the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology ( AIMA ) began a collaboration to draft a new standard for scientific diving.

For these reasons, the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ), a United Nations agency specializing in safety of shipping and preventing ships from polluting the seas, began looking at ways of improving maritime distress and safety communications.

The immigration history of Australia began with the initial human migration to the continent around 50, 000 years ago when the ancestors of Australian Aborigines arrived on the continent via the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and New Guinea.

For instance, against the intentions of those who framed the constitution, the provinces began to regard themselves as homogeneous communities, each with a right to a certain amount of self-governance founded on a co-sovereign crown, a notion that was eventually cemented in the 1882 Judicial Committee of the Privy Council case of Maritime Bank vs. Receiver-General of New Brunswick.

Maritime insurance began in 1323 in Portugal, and between 1336 and 1341 the first attempts at maritime expansion are made, with the expedition to Canary Islands, sponsored by King Afonso IV.

Texas A & M University Galveston began in 1962 as a marine laboratory and as the home of the Texas Maritime Academy.

The government stood by the principle that military action was permitted only under civilian control, but in recognition that delay for consultation might prove dangerous, ships of the Maritime Self-Defense Force ( MSDF ) began to be armed with live torpedoes, and fighter-interceptors were allowed to carry missiles at all times.

After the Korean War ended, the Japan Self-Defense Forces were formed, and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces ships began to homeport in Sasebo.

After WWII fishing inspections and sea measuring began again and the first dedicated Greenland command was erected, called the " Greenland Maritime Command ", located at Nuuk ().

Krystal began hosting Maritime Morning in October 2005.

The Marine Electric began its life as a T2 tanker, constructed for the United States Maritime Commission.

Rumors began to swirl that a live band would be taken on the road for the first time but these rumors never materialized as Mike again rejoined Joan of Arc and became a touring member of both Maritime and Aloha.

They were, however, forced to abandon this plan as the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force began a pursuit of the kidnappers ' boat.

The main waterways are the Albert Canal connecting Antwerp to Liège, the Ghent – Terneuzen Canal through the port of Ghent connecting Ghent with the Westerschelde, the Boudewijn Canal through the port of Bruges-Zeebrugge connecting Bruges with the North Sea, the Brussels-Charleroi Canal, Brussels-Scheldt Maritime Canal and Scheldt connecting Charleroi to Antwerp, the Nimy-Blaton-Péronnes Canal and Scheldt connecting the Borinage to Antwerp, the connection between the North Sea and Antwerp and the connection between Dunkerque and Liège via the Nimy-Blaton-Péronnes Canal, the Canal du Centre, the lower Sambre and the Meuse.

Maritime boundary dispute with Venezuela in the Gulf of Venezuela ; territorial disputes with Nicaragua over Archipelago de San Andrés y Providencia and Quita Sueño Bank.

This combination of events, coupled with an ongoing decline in British military and economic support to the region as the Home Office favoured newer colonial endeavours in Africa and elsewhere, led to a call among Maritime politicians for a conference on Maritime Union, to be held in early September 1864 in Charlottetown-chosen in part because of Prince Edward Island's reluctance to give up its jurisdictional sovereignty in favour of uniting with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into a single colony.

Of the Maritime provinces, only Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were initially party to the BNA Act, Prince Edward Island's reluctance, combined with a booming agricultural and fishing export economy having led to that colony opting not to sign on.

For the first time this placed the Maritime manufacturers in direct competition with those of Central Canada.

Maritime trading patterns shifted considerably from mainly trading with New England, Britain, and the Caribbean, to being focused on commerce with the Canadian interior, enforced by the federal government's tariff policies.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, just the opposite was the case with little to no population concentration in major industrial centres as the predominantly rural resource-dependent Maritime economy continued on the same path as it had since European settlement on the region's shores.

* Maritime border with Poland.

Along with Moncton and Halifax, Fredericton is one of three Maritime cities to register a population increase in recent years.

This edict relaxed the administrative bonds that connected all the Seven Provinces ( The Maritime Alps, Narbonensis Prima, Narbonensis Secunda, Novempopulania, Aquitania Prima, Aquitania Secunda and Viennensis ) with the central government.

The FSM is notably one of four UN-recognized nations with a sea border that is not a member of the International Maritime Organization ( the others are Naura, Niue and Palau ).

The opening scenes of Ryota at the Maritime Safety Agency searching for news of his brother have been replaced with a scene supposedly showing Ebirah destroying Yata's boat.

Many Maritime Archaic people were buried with Great Auk bones, and one was buried covered in over 200 auk beaks, which are assumed to have been part of a cloak made of their skins.

A person buried at the Maritime Archaic site at Port au Choix, Newfoundland, dating to about 2000 BC, was found surrounded by more than 200 Great Auk beaks, which are believed to have been part of a suit made from their skins, with the heads left attached as decoration.

Although they show some connections with other inhabitants in Maritime Southeast Asia, some also have an ancestry in Indochina around the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, about 20, 000 years ago.

This is already beginning to occur ( 2011 ) with various would-be data providers preparing themselves for the advent of the E-Navigation concept currently under active discussion in the UN International Maritime Organisation ( IMO ).

Maritime boundaries between states are generally decided by bilateral negotiation ( sometimes with the aid of judicial bodies ), not by ISA.

South Africa and Madagascar shared Maritime borders with Each other.

Maritime meteorology deals with air and wave forecasts for ships operating at sea.