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Meanings of river transportation in English

Russian
внутренний водный транспорт
Portuguese
navegação interior
Spanish
navegacion fluvial
Catalan
navegació interior
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Water transportation on rivers and other internal waters.

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        внутренний водный транспорт
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        Examples for "inland navigation"
        Examples for "inland navigation"
        1
        Coals carried, either by land or by inland navigation, pay no duty.
        An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
        2
        Still, Glasgow was fairly thriving, thanks to the inland navigation of the Clyde.
        A History of the Four Georges, Volume I
        3
        All inland navigation ceased, and nearly all the song-birds perished.
        The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1
        4
        Future progress of society with respect to commerce; discoveries; inland navigation; philosophical, med and political knowledge.
        The Columbiad: A Poem
        5
        An inland navigation of unexampled rapidity conveys commodities up and down the rivers of the country.
        Democracy in America — Volume 1
        1
        Indeed, they constitute much the greater portion of wood consumed in river navigation.
        Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 / Devoted to Lit...
        2
        The part he had chosen was the hotel system and the river navigation.
        The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2
        3
        He was also impeded at first by his comparative ignorance of river navigation.
        The Walrus Hunters: A Romance of the Realms of Ice
        4
        The Corps had started releasing water to help river navigation.
        Reuters
        5
        A snag is only one of the numerous sources of accident in American river navigation.
        Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
        1
        Lloyd says he's interested in linking cities a few hundred miles apart, and connecting ports to inland transportation centers.
        Wired
        1
        His success-actually , ahungjury-wasa major blow to river transport, and to St. Louis.
        Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
        2
        Rail is still wrecked, river transport neglected.
        Reuters
        3
        Here they were dependent on river transport.
        The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
        4
        I knew the country, and this was the only true granary that admitted of river transport to Gondokoro.
        Ismailia
        5
        There would be a caravan formed down to Tungchow, which is fifteen miles away, and then river transport.
        Indiscreet Letters From Peking / Being the Notes of an Eye-Witne...
        Usage of river transportation in English
        1
        These regions now have railway and river transportation and are prospering accordingly.
        Policing the Plains / Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous N...
        2
        In late years, since the railway has become the chief means for the transportation of commodities, river transportation has greatly declined.
        Commercial Geography / A Book for High Schools, Commercial Cours...
        3
        Even though the current low-water problem is not tied to failing infrastructure, it is underscoring how quickly financial losses can climb when river transportation slows.
        Reuters
        4
        River transportation is not usually antagonistic to railway interests.
        Three Acres and Liberty