In the late 1800s, one third of industrial Bilbao's annual requirement of coal - some 200,000 tons - arrived by ship from England because it was difficult to get coal from Spain's interior.
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我们已经是一个海运国了,因此我们需要相应的力量,无论是航母还是战舰,就像是美国和英国所达到的那样。
We're already a maritime power, and so we need an appropriate force, whether that's aircraft carriers or battleships, just like the United States or the British empire did.