41.   The Oeresund links the Baltic Sea and the North Sea and is a busy shipping route.

42.   Wichar and others say smugglers fake or alter export licenses and use indirect shipping routes to sneak orchids out of a country.

43.   For the first time, he charged Wednesday in Bahrain that Tehran had deployed chemical weapons near oil shipping routes.

44.   For the first time, Perry charged Wednesday that Tehran had deployed chemical weapons near oil shipping routes.

45.   In order to maintain trade with Italy, authorities have established shipping routes to skirt barricaded roads.

46.   ASEAN countries in turn provide a huge and increasingly prosperous market for Japan and straddle critical shipping routes.

47.   Cuba does not produce drugs for European or North American markets but lies squarely along the key Caribbean shipping routes to both lucrative markets from elsewhere in Latin America.

48.   The Spratlys archipelago lies near vital merchant shipping routes and are reputed to sit on vast oil and mineral deposits.

49.   They are also close to Djibouti where France has a large military base designed to protect Red Sea shipping routes.

50.   Lebanon on Friday closed shipping routes with Libya, and Foreign Minister Fares Bweiz said the country could not cope with such a flood of people.