61.   Singapore lies next to strategic shipping lanes in the Strait of Malacca and the South China Sea.

62.   Still, six German warships left last week to patrol shipping lanes and cut off any routes used by terrorist groups off the Horn of Africa.

63.   Tehran is locked in a dispute with the United Arab Emirates over three small but stragegic islands which dominate the shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz.

64.   Tensions flared in the region during the fighting and an ensuing diplomatic tussle, posing a potential menace to heavily used shipping lanes nearby.

65.   The accident occured in the shipping lane leading from Stockholm harbor to the open sea.

66.   The change means yachts no longer have to navigate the shipping lanes and oil derricks in the Bass Straits between Australia and Tasmania.

67.   The Coast Guard said it was possible that other survivors had been picked up by private vessels as the accident site is a busy shipping lane and fishing area.

68.   The Coast Guard said that other survivors may had been picked up by private vessels because the accident took place in a busy shipping lane and fishing area.

69.   The dispute over the strategic island of Greater Hanish, which dominates key shipping lanes in the Red Sea, flared into armed conflict at the weekend.

70.   The group of islets, reefs and atolls also straddles strategic shipping lanes, including the route tankers take to supply Japan with oil from the Middle East.