Sentence examples for shipping conduit from inspiring English sources

Until 1973, there were no permanent bridges across the 31-kilometer strait, a crucial shipping conduit between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

Chicago, as the Midwest's premier transport center, became a conduit for shipping grain as well as shipping beef and pork.

The Chinese have largely taken over Piraeus, Greece's main port, with an eye to make it a conduit for shipping goods into Europe.

The narrow Bab al-Mandab strait, where the Red Sea meets the Gulf of Aden off Yemen's south-western tip, is a conduit for all shipping going through the Suez canal, and about 30% of the world's oil passes.

The officers were pursuing Mr. Faulkner after responding to a complaint that he had broken a car window outside a courier and shipping business called MTR, on South Conduit Avenue, the police said.

Residents also want assurances that the levees will be strong enough to protect them, and they demand the closing of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, the shortcut shipping canal that acted as a conduit for the storm surge to deluge them.

And indeed, since the Canal opened in 1914, it has been the main conduit for ocean-going ships carrying trade worldwide.

It operates on the same intermittent principle as a ship lock but is constructed as a closed conduit.

Boeing sees the platform as a potential communication conduit between underwater vehicles and aircraft, ships or satellites.

"All it needed was a rope from the ship to the shore and the rats had a conduit.

For years now, Somali pirates with fiberglass skiffs and salt-rusted Kalashnikovs have been commandeering ships along one of the most congested shipping routes in the world — the Gulf of Aden, a vital conduit for Middle East oil to Europe and the United States.