1.   The International Maritime Organization, the UN organization responsible for the regulation of commercial shipping worldwide, has agreed a series of measures to reduce pollution from ships.

2.   By then the personal rivalry between the two men had extended beyond the world of commercial shipping.

3.   The Canada Shipping Act, which regulates commercial shipping, is now under review and amendments have been offered to increase fines and make them mandatory in some cases.

4.   We rejected both extremes and instead asked whether the incident could be seen within a class of incidents that posed more than a fanciful risk to commercial shipping.

5.   Any disruption of commercial shipping there will affect its vital earnings from the Suez Canal at the north end of the Red Sea.

6.   Dense fog covering the Turkish straits for two days lifted Tuesday, allowing oil tankers and other commercial shipping to resume passage.

7.   Dutton said Hong Kong is not ideally located and is too busy with commercial shipping to become a strategic base.

8.   England wanted to keep them as markets for their clothing industry and prevent their entry to international trade via control of commercial shipping.

9.   However, under pressure from business, the government has relaxed some aspects of the ban, allowing commercial shipping between the sides via third-party ports.

10.   The FMC regulates commercial shipping while the Federal Maritime Administration promotes U.S. shipping interests as an agency of the Transportation Department.