11.   But if such a device could be placed in a cargo container and introduced into global shipping lanes, it could find its way to U.S. shores.

12.   But Wilson could not keep the shipping lanes open.

13.   China also claims the Spratly Islands, a large archipelago in the potentially oil-rich South China Sea, a key regional shipping lane.

14.   Even as the Florida Straits remained one of the busiest of shipping lanes, navigational equipment and maps improved.

15.   He insisted that China had no interest in disrupting freedom of navigation on vital shipping lanes in the South China Sea.

16.   It is not perched on the edge of a critical international shipping lane or some other location of economic importance.

17.   It was in danger of causing an accident that might disable shipping lanes that are as finely calibrated as the runways of a busy airport.

18.   Meantime, Venezuelan tanker pilots voted to go on strike to protest the worsening safety record of the Maracaibo shipping lane, which they say needs dredging.

19.   News of the shipping lane closing helped lift oil prices yesterday.

20.   Nippon Yusen KK Managing Director Koji Toyoda said the tanker was trying to avoid five ships that were in the same shipping lane.