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Maritime Grain Transport Office
The Maritime Grain Transport Office (海道运粮) was the Yuan dynasty agency that shipped Jiangnan tax grain by sea to the capital Dadu, peaking at over 3,000,000 shi a year.
Maritime Greenwich
Maritime Greenwich: UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 1997) in London, home of the Queen's House, Royal Observatory, Old Royal Naval College, and Greenwich Meridian and Mean Time.
Maritime Labour Convention
The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) is the ILO treaty, adopted 23 February 2006, in force 20 August 2013, setting minimum working and living standards for seafarers. Consolidates 37 earlier conventions; 113 ratifications cover 96.6% of world shipping tonnage; amended 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2025.
Maritime lien
A maritime lien is a privileged claim on a vessel or cargo for services or injuries, arising by law, traveling with the ship, and enforced in rem.
Maritime Mobile Service Identity
A Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI) is a nine-digit number that uniquely identifies ship and coast stations in maritime radio, used by DSC and AIS equipment.
Maritime patrol aircraft
A maritime patrol aircraft (MPA), also called a patrol bomber, is a military airplane that flies long ocean missions to find, track, and attack submarines and ships.
Maritime pilot
A maritime pilot, also known as a harbor or river pilot, is a mariner who boards ships to guide them safely into or out of port using local knowledge.
Maritime Research Institute Netherlands
The Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN, Dutch: Maritiem Research Instituut Nederland) is an independent maritime research institute in Wageningen, the Netherlands, founded in 1932 as the Nederlandsch Scheepsbouwkundig Proefstation.
Maritime Safety Information
Maritime Safety Information (MSI) is the coordinated network of broadcasts carrying navigational and meteorological warnings, forecasts, and urgent safety messages that ships must be able to receive at sea under the GMDSS.
Maritime Security Response Team
Maritime Security Response Team (MSRT), USCG maritime counterterrorism unit; MSRT-East Chesapeake, Virginia and MSRT-West San Diego; established 2006 from MSST-91102 and TACLET North; CBRNE, high-risk boarding, DSF, Special Missions Command 2026.
Maritime Southeast Asia
Maritime (island) Southeast Asia: the Malay Peninsula plus the Indonesian and Philippine archipelagos, covering Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, East Timor, and the Philippines; over 24,000 islands, Malayo-Polynesian languages, Srivijaya and Malacca trade history, and the Coral Triangle.
Maritime Squadron of the Armed Forces of Malta
Maritime Squadron of the Armed Forces of Malta (Malta Maritime Troop, 1970): the AFM's naval unit at Hay Wharf, Floriana, running offshore patrol vessels, SAR launches, and Gozo-based craft for surveillance, law enforcement, and search and rescue.
Maritime Trade Office (Shibosi)
The Maritime Trade Office (市舶司, shibosi) was the Ming dynasty agency regulating foreign tribute trade at designated ports, repeatedly abolished and restored until the late sixteenth century.
Maritime transport
Maritime transport, also called sea transport, is the movement of goods and passengers by sea in merchant ships, which carried 24.11 billion tonnes of freight in 2024, up 3.9 percent from 2023.
Maritime Union of Australia
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) is a trade union for waterside workers, seafarers, and port workers, formed in 1993 and amalgamated with the CFMEU in 2018.
Maritimes and Northeast Gas Pipeline
The Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline (M&NP) is a natural gas pipeline from Goldboro, Nova Scotia, to Dracut, Massachusetts, built in 1999 and now flowing in reverse.
Maritsa (Марица)
Maritsa (Марица; Evros, Meriç; ancient Hebros), 537 km Balkan river rising in the Rila Mountains, flowing through Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey to the Aegean, a flood-prone transboundary border river.
Maritz rebellion
The Maritz rebellion, also known as the Boer Revolt, was a 1914 armed uprising by Afrikaner nationalists in South Africa against entering the First World War on the British side.
Maritza Davila
Maritza Davila is an American Democratic member of the New York State Assembly representing the 53rd district in Brooklyn, where she chairs the Committee on Social Services.
Maritza Marten
Maritza Marten (Maritza Martén García), Cuban discus thrower born 1963, 1992 Barcelona Olympic champion with 70.06 m; three-time Pan-American champion, 1992 World Cup winner, personal best 70.68 m.
Mariupol (Маріуполь)
Mariupol (Маріуполь) is a port city on the Sea of Azov in southeastern Ukraine, once a leading shipping center, which has been under Russian occupation since May 2022.
Mariupol City Council
Mariupol City Council (Маріупольська міська рада), Ukrainian municipal council of Mariupol, in exile in Dnipro since the 2022 Russian occupation; a separate Russian-installed 25-deputy DNR body of the same name operates in the city under Oleg Morgun.
Mariupol' (site)
Mariupol' (site): ancient tumulus place near Mariupol, Ukraine, in Barrington Atlas 84 C1 and Pleiades 825322; also the Mariupol Neolithic burial ground excavated by Makarenko in 1930, type site of Mariupol-type cemeteries.
Mariupolskyi Raion
Mariupolskyi Raion (Маріупольський район) is a 2020-formed district of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Mariupol; 2,634.2 km², 89 settlements, 5 communities, occupied by Russia since May 2022.
Marius
Marius, also called Marius of Avenches or Saint Maire, was a sixth-century bishop of Avenches in Switzerland, remembered for his chronicle covering 455 to 581.
Marius Alfius
Marius Alfius (died 215 BC) was a Campanian magistrate who held the office of medix tuticus and commanded 14,000 troops in the revolt against Rome during the Second Punic War.
Marius Borg Høiby
Marius Borg Høiby, born 1997, is Queen Mette-Marit of Norway's eldest son and King Haakon's stepson, with no royal title. Convicted June 2026 of two rapes and abuse, sentenced to four years, now appealing to Borgarting Court of Appeal with retrial set for February 2027.
Marius Lindvik
Marius Lindvik, born 1998, is a Norwegian ski jumper who won Olympic large hill gold at Beijing 2022 and became world normal hill champion at Trondheim 2025.
Marius M. Hoeper
Marius M. Hoeper is a German pulmonologist, director of respiratory medicine at Hannover Medical School, who helped develop most drugs approved for pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Marius Mercator
Marius Mercator (c. 390 – after 451) was an African lay Christian scholar who translated Greek theological texts into Latin and wrote against Pelagianism and Nestorianism, corresponding with Augustine.