shipping lane

The last thing the world needs right now is disruption of one of its busiest shipping lanes and a spike in insurance premiums.

The United States has said that the sea, home to key shipping lanes, is in its national interest.

The shortest route between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, it has some of the world's busiest shipping lanes.

Some fear that Yemen could now join nearby Somalia in a zone of violent anarchy straddling one of the world's main shipping lanes.

And these black lines mark shipping lanes in and out of the Bay of Fundy.

Following this disaster, the United States Coast Guard established an iceberg patrol in the North Atlantic shipping lanes.

Marine scientists at the through an underwater microphone placed near the shipping lanes off Canada's Vancouver Island.

He was out of the shipping lanes and floating in a life raft, alone.

On a rough day it is clear that the shipping lanes have broken down, and that shipping density doesn't get so high.

Apart from Archangel on the White Sea, closed by ice for most of the year, the country had no access to the world's shipping lanes.

Officials are also concerned the declining water levels at the dam's reservoir could cause power shortages and affect shipping lanes.

EU ships are patrolling the shipping lanes near Somalia in an effort to reduce pirate hijackings.

Their next dip will be in the congested shipping lanes of the Strait of Gibraltar, which separates Africa from Europe.

Veterans of the Afghan jihad operate training camps in Libya's lush Green Mountain, overlooking Europe's shipping lanes.

U. S. President Barack Obama says he is determined to halt piracy in the shipping lanes off the coast of Somalia.

Clark studies endangered northern right whales, whose habitat includes busy shipping lanes for the port of Boston.

International naval patrols against Somali pirates have made shipping lanes much safer.

China's economy is heavily dependent on maritime trade, and thus the safeguarding of shipping lanes is critical to Chinese security.

Who will ensure order? Who will keep the shipping lanes open and set the rules for the global financial system?

The waters straddle some of the world's busiest shipping lanes and rich fish stocks.

Several Asian nations claim territory in the waters that include shipping lanes and may contain oil and gas.

Iraqi officials say there are about 80 shipwrecks littering the coastal area and blocking shipping lanes that need to be removed.

The area has commercial shipping lanes that are vital for global trade.

Indonesia also dominates strategic shipping lanes which provide passage to 40 percent of the world's commerce.

It will be moored in about 150 feet of water and be positioned outside of shipping lanes and away from port traffic.

Speed limits and relocating shipping lanes could help save lives.

Navigation in the South China Sea is free and the international shipping lanes are safe.

Shipping lanes would evolve in areas never usable before.

He refutes the idea that a dash for gas and the creation of new Arctic shipping lanes threatens Norway's green credentials.

They have turned these waters into the most dangerous shipping lanes in the world.

A record ice melt up there is opening new shipping lanes that would greatly cut the amount of time it takes to get goods around the world.

Shipping lanes now figure prominently in China's foreign-policy calculus.

We all know the importance of the Drylanders' shipping lanes, how empires may rise and fall according to who controls the open water.

A responsible China can alleviate the strain on US resources, for example in securing safe shipping lanes.