1
: borne over or on the sea
a seaborne invasion
2
: carried on by oversea shipping
seaborne trade
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Last year, about 23 million metric tons of coal exports were shipped from the port of Baltimore, about a quarter of all seaborne U.S. coal shipments.
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Jenny Gross, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
Aid delivery to the north could be expanded by reopening the Karni and Eres border crossings in the northeast and by facilitating seaborne transport from Cyprus, as the UN did during Israel’s 2006 war in Lebanon.
—Hardin Lang, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2024
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Jenny Gross, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
Aid delivery to the north could be expanded by reopening the Karni and Eres border crossings in the northeast and by facilitating seaborne transport from Cyprus, as the UN did during Israel’s 2006 war in Lebanon.
—Hardin Lang, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2024
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“Seaborne.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seaborne. Accessed 31 May. 2024.
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