21.   Once Taiwan and China are full members, probably by early next year, they can thrash out issues like opening direct shipping lanes and nonstop commercial flights.

22.   Shipping lanes around the world are crisscrossed by enormous tankers broadcasting low-frequency noise that may be harming whales every day.

23.   That prevents them from wandering into major shipping lanes farther north.

24.   The capping material used in Elizabeth and planned at Bayonne is the muck dredged out of New York Harbor to keep shipping lanes deep enough for modern freighters.

25.   The area also straddles shipping lanes for cargo vessel traffic between Murmansk and the polar port of Dikson in Siberia.

26.   The drop point was chosen because it was away from air and shipping lanes and in an explosives dumping area.

27.   The shallow water makes the tall turbines easier to build and keeps them away from major shipping lanes.

28.   The problem is how to export the oil and gas from the Caspian, which is really a lake and has no good connections to international shipping lanes.

29.   The shipping lane proposal was developed through a two-year collaborative effort led by the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and the U.S. Coast Guard.

30.   The warming is likely to keep shipping lanes in Alaska and the Great Lakes free of ice for longer periods, easing the movement of oil and other goods.