Sentence examples for congested strait from inspiring English sources

This would also give Russia a land corridor to Crimea which, since annexation by Russia, has only been accessible to mainland Russia by aircraft or by a ferry crossing across a congested strait.

An explanation of how so many merchant ships have come to fly so-called flags of convenience reveals the ease with which terrorists can tamper with cargo -- loading a dirty bomb among tins of crab, exploding a shipment of chemicals in a congested strait.

The canal will provide an alternative route in lieu of the congested Strait of Malacca.

Dawei promises to cut the shipping time between Bangkok and the Indian port of Chennai from six days to three, by circumventing the congested Malacca straits.So far, so good.

Asked how he likes Baku, which is rather a dour place, he bats back that it certainly compares favourably with his previous two postings, Luanda and Jakarta.BP's greatest triumph is the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, through which oil began to flow at the end of 2006, bypassing both Russia and the congested Bosporus straits.

So many ships have congregated here — 735, according to AIS Live ship tracking service of Lloyd's Register-Fairplay in Redhill, Britain — that shipping lines are becoming concerned about near misses and collisions in one of the world's most congested waterways, the straits that separate Malaysia and Singapore from Indonesia.

Seamen usually select popular routes according to navigational and hydrographical characteristics when passing through a strait with congested traffic.

The congested street is only a minor problem.

-Feeling congested?

A big, congested Golden Bear.

"Detroit" simply means "strait".