interoceanic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of interoceanic
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The recent bids to use the 50-mile interoceanic waterway reflect the canal’s crucial role at a time when shipping companies have been forced to shift maritime routes, the WSJ’s Santiago Pérez and Costas Paris write.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Near the entrance to the Panama Canal, a monument to China's contributions to the interoceanic waterway was torn down Saturday night by order of local authorities.
From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025
The Panama Canal Authority last week opened two additional slots per day for vessels without booking to transit to help clear bottlenecks on both sides of the interoceanic corridor.
From Reuters ● Aug. 22, 2023
Panama, the narrow isthmus linking the North and South American landmasses, is the hemisphere’s natural transit point — both for cargo ships using its interoceanic canal and for U.S.-bound migrants coming from South America.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2019
In 1504 La Cosa and Vespucius, during a trading voyage on the Gulf of Urabá, ascended the Atrato River two hundred miles by a route which has since been proposed as an interoceanic canal.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
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