Free Blacks, who were the majority of Black Bermudians in the 17th century, were threatened with enslavement as an attempt to encourage their emigration, and slave owners were encouraged to export enslaved Blacks ( with all slaves seen, like horses on an archipelago with dense forests and few roads, as a status symbol ) whenever a war loomed, as they were portrayed as unnecessary bellies to feed during times of shortage ( even before abandoning agriculture for maritime activities in 1684, Bermuda had become reliant on food imports ).

While the inland inhabitants are mainly employed within the agricultural sector, the majority of Salamis ' inhabitants work in maritime occupations ( fishing, ferries, and the island's shipyards ) or commute to work in Athens.

A maritime nation is any nation which borders the sea and is dependent on its use for majority of the following state activities: commerce and transport, war, to define a territorial boundary, or for any maritime activity ( activities using the sea to convey or produce an end result ).

The majority of them are either descendants of traders from the maritime Republics of the Mediterranean ( such as Venice, Genoa and Ragusa ) or of European inhabitants of the Crusader states ( especially the French Levantines in Lebanon, Israel and Turkey ).

It is the most important maritime arena, including most coastal traffic and territorial waters, in which are found the great majority of a nation ’ s maritime police, customs, environmental, and economic concerns.

The Arsenal produced the majority of Venice's maritime trading vessels, which generated much of the city's economic wealth and power, lasting until the fall of the republic to Napoleon's conquest of the area in 1797.

The vast majority of passenger travel occurs by automobile for shorter distances, and airplane or railroad for some people, for longer distances.

In Northern Ireland the majority of passenger services have been operated by diesel multiple units since the mid-1950s under the tenure of both the Ulster Transport Authority ( 1948 – 1966 ) and Northern Ireland Railways ( since 1967 ).

Though there is overwhelming support from a majority of residents looking for better public transportation options, several residents along Old Jordan Road in Holland have voiced NIMBY opposition to the reactivation of regular passenger service.

Based in Tripoli, it operates scheduled passenger and cargo services within Libya and to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, the majority of which leave from Tripoli International Airport.

For air travel, Medway residents must use Kent's main airports Kent International ( Manston ) or Lydd but these lack extensive passenger facilities or routes, thus the London airports are used the vast majority of the time ( mainly Gatwick, Heathrow, Luton and Stansted )

As in France, the majority of passenger services are connections to the capital, Helsinki.

Most major U. S. passenger carriers serve ANC, with the majority of passenger flight operations by Alaska Airlines to and from Seattle ( an average of 20 flights per day ) and Fairbanks ( an average of 13 flights per day ).

Ships also feature numerous bars and nightclubs for passenger entertainment ; the majority of cruise lines do not include alcoholic beverages in their fares and passengers are expected to pay for drinks as they consume them.

Bilevel passenger rail cars used in the United States are manufactured by Bombardier, Kawasaki, Colorado Railcar, IC 2000, and several others, with the former two having produced the majority of the high platform " split level " commuter rail cars in use in the northeastern states.

For most commercial passenger aircraft, the cruise phase of flight consumes the majority of fuel.

The railway became part of the London and South Western Railway in the 1870s, who operated distinctive steam railcars on the line for passenger services, although the majority of traffic was goods-with bricks coming from the town and coal for the gasworks going to.

CAFE has separate standards for " passenger cars " and " light trucks ", despite the majority of " light trucks " actually being used as passenger cars.

Since 1971, the majority of passenger rail systems in the United States have been operated by Amtrak.

Until the late-1970s, the ICR line through northern New Brunswick and eastern Quebec continued to host a large portion of CN's freight and the majority of its passenger traffic to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland.

The majority of the passenger traffic was local although a number of LNWR services from Manchester to London were operated via Stoke.

The latter is the modern standard for on-and off-road transport manual and semi-automatic transmission, although it may be found in many forms ; e. g., non-synchronised straight-cut in racetrack or super-heavy-duty applications, non-synchro helical in the majority of heavy trucks and motorcycles and in certain classic cars ( e. g. the Fiat 500 ), and partly or fully synchronised helical in almost all modern manual-shift passenger cars and light trucks.

The majority of passenger equipment is believed to have been scrapped some time after February 1961.

In addition, its port is the largest on the island, serving the great majority of passenger and cargo vessels that visit the island.

By the 1880s, railway post office routes were operating on the vast majority of passenger trains in the United States.

While the majority of this service consisted of one or more cars at the head end of passenger trains, many railways operated solid mail trains between major cities ; these solid mail trains would often carry 300 tons of mail daily.

Attempts were made to replace the K4s, including the K5 and the T1 duplex locomotive, but none was really successful, and the K4s hauled the vast majority of express passenger trains until replaced by diesel locomotives.

The majority of the world's air traffic falls into this category, and most of the world's airports serve general aviation exclusively.

The vast majority of IKEA stores are located outside of city centres, primarily because of land cost and traffic access.

IPv6 is intended to replace the older IPv4, which is still employed for the vast majority of Internet traffic as of 2012.

Due to low traffic volumes the majority of roads are not tarred.

Electrified track accounts for around half of the Russian railway network-totalling-but carries the majority of railway traffic.

The majority of the world's airports are non-towered, with no air traffic control presence.

The modern Internet operates with significantly more peering locations than at any time in the past, resulting in improved performance and better routing for the majority of the traffic on the Internet.

The majority of deception was carried out by means of false wireless traffic and through German double agents.

The majority of road tunnels in Australia have been constructed since the 1990s to relieve traffic congestion in metropolitan areas, or to cross significant watercourses.

The vast majority of traffic into and out of the Salt Lake Valley passes through only four geographic features, all of which are narrow.

The vast majority of computer surveillance involves the monitoring of data and traffic on the Internet.

The vast majority of computer surveillance involves the monitoring of data and traffic on the Internet.

The majority of these traffic violations are written to out-of-state drivers, travelling on Interstate 10, which bisects the county ..

The bypass has relieved a majority of the downtown traffic, the purpose of it being built in the first place.

In 2000 Skydive Long Island ( formerly located at East Moriches ) moved to the airport, and to this day continues to generate the majority of the current air traffic as a key destination for New York based skydivers.

Most traffic collisions and injuries occur at intersections and the majority of the injuries to pedestrians crossing with the right of way.

The city also had more automobiles per capita than any other city in the country at the time which meant that, in the early days, Bluefield experienced the " five o ' clock traffic jam / gridlock " long before the majority of the rest of the nation — even before New York City.

Areas where there are large ( but not necessarily majority ) Muslim populations have overflowing attendances at the mosque for the Eid ul-Fitr prayer and police frequently block off roads and divert traffic to cater for the prayer and subsequent festivities.

The majority of international air traffic enters Japan via Chiba Prefecture.

In the U. S., a majority of the air traffic control workforce will retire over the next 10 years.

The CASO operated very few trains of its own-the majority of traffic on the line consisted of New York Central Railway trains transiting between Windsor, Ontario ( and the tunnel to Detroit ), and one of two bridges over the Niagara River located at Niagara Falls and Fort Erie.

The vast majority of air traffic in and out of the airport is private aircraft.

95, 643 aircraft traffic movements were recorded ; the majority being domestic services.

Cargo traffic has also become another stronghold of Prestwick with the vast majority of Scotland's Boeing 747 Freighter traffic entering via the airport.