1.   ...the main shipping routes to Japan.

2.   As ice increasingly retreats in summer throughout the Arctic, Russia is developing its own northern shipping route.

3.   As international attention has increased police pressure on smuggling networks in those three Andean nations, traffickers have increasingly turned to Brazil as a shipping route.

4.   A Japanese coast guard vessel was moved south to check on shipping routes, according to the Reuters news service.

5.   But South Korean officials also worry that shipping radioactive waste could endanger countries along the shipping route.

6.   Guerrillas dominate nearly half the countryside and drug traffickers use new shipping routes and sophisticated money-laundering techniques.

7.   Howland is not on a major shipping route and was not involved in World War II battles, Jourdan said.

8.   It could shorten shipping routes, for example, and expand the range of offshore oil drillers.

9.   North Korea will now be allowed to export raw materials and goods to the United states and open shipping routes between the two countries.

10.   Still, the U.S. military presence in the area is likely to keep shipping routes open.