shipping channel
Designated vessel route
A shipping channel is a navigable waterway—natural or dredged—deep and wide enough for commercial vessels to pass safely.
Channels through harbors, rivers, and coastal waters are marked with buoys and regularly maintained to prevent ships from running aground: The port authority dredged the shipping channel to accommodate larger container ships.
- dredgingExtracting underwater sediment
- deep waterSignificantly submerged aquatic zone
- pierWaterfront landing structure
- dockMooring structure at water's edge
- buoyTethered nautical signal
pilotage · fairway · port · seaway · nautical chart · breakwater · safe passage · strait · harbor · shipping lane · passage · port authority · port of call · freighter · shipping industry · wake · sedimentation · navigation
- routesroad, path, route, highway, freeway
- waterwaysriver, rivers, canal, canals, stream
- Louisiana coastbayou, Mississippi Delta, barrier island, salt marsh, Lake Pontchartrain
- sea routesshipping lane, Northwest Passage, sea routes, Northeast Passage, ocean routes
- Thames EstuaryThames Barrier, River Thames, tidal range, mudflats, salt marshes
- ChannelsTV channels, cable channels, radio station, news channels, local channels
shipping channelshoal
Shallow water hazard
sandbar · reef · shallows · shallow water · blocked passage
shipping channelopen ocean
Sea far from shore
open sea · high seas · open water · deep ocean · uncharted waters