1.   Battles over access to shipping lanes and trade routes are commonplace, and piracy returns in modern trappings.

2.   It confined transoceanic vessels to a few narrow shipping lanes that promised safe passage.

3.   The icebergs have a long journey south to the shipping lanes.

4.   The moment we were across the shipping lane, we dropped the tow.

5.   We trudged across the main shipping lane with tankers and coasters hooting irritably at us to get out of the way.

6.   The collision took place in the busiest shipping lanes in the world.

7.   Because the odd barge or detached mast occasionally drifts into busy shipping lanes, the Army Corps of Engineers made plans a decade ago to remove the debris.

8.   A Western diplomat said that during those meetings, Macke was told that China was not seeking to control the shipping lanes.

9.   After American Indians showed the Spaniards the cochinillos, mashed bug juice became a hot item on the shipping lanes.

10.   Airports are closing, shipping lanes are being disrupted, and fishing boats are being forced to stay ashore.