Sentence examples for shipping corridor from inspiring English sources

Both exits are ideally situated in the New York to Washington shipping corridor.

But numerous officials have warned Iran in recent days to avoid any move toward blocking the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping corridor for Middle Eastern oil.

Perhaps nowhere outside the direct path of the flooding has the economic sting been felt more immediately and acutely than along the Danube, Europe's second-busiest inland shipping corridor, after the Rhine.

This week, a Chinese warship conducted a risky maneuver and sailed within 45 yards of a U.S. Navy destroyer in the contested South China Sea, where China has sought to establish maritime dominance in the crucial shipping corridor.

Trapped has its feet firmly on the hard ground: the financial crisis of 2008 is still felt, and there's a possible deal on the table from China to turn this sleepy corner of east Iceland into a major port, lying as it does in a new east-west shipping corridor.

In doing so, Xi has sought to elbow the United States and other global powers out of what Beijing considers China's sovereign claims, which its leaders call "core interests". Among them are the South China Sea, a crucial shipping corridor over which China has asserted maritime control, and Taiwan, the target of an intensifying campaign by Beijing to isolate the island diplomatically.

But he said that the accident underlined the need to tighten maritime safety rules and widen the gap between shipping corridors and vulnerable coastlines.

These challenges include the difficulty of navigating vast, slow-reacting vessels through narrow and busy shipping corridors, and teaching computers to guide 100,000 ton-plus container ships to docks.

The road buckled and collapsed, cutting off one of the state's vital truck shipping corridors for weeks if not months.

The road buckled and collapsed, cutting off one of the state's vital truck shipping corridors for weeks or, more likely, months.

She was given the patrol duties at two designated areas before the war started, but was ordered to operate under two restrictions: she was not to cross demarcated shipping corridors and she could attack a target only after positive identification.