Sentence examples for shipping passes from inspiring English sources

The contested sea, through which $5tn in shipping passes annually, has been a source of increasing tension between China and its south-east Asian neighbours as well as the US.

AMERICA and its friends in Asia have long worried about the South China Sea becoming a Chinese lake a vast stretch of water, through which half the world's commercial shipping passes, falling under the control of China's fast-expanding navy and coastguard.

The region offers much opportunity for this kind of piracy: over a third of all shipping passes through the Strait of Malacca, including 15.2 million barrels of crude oil and petroleum transported every day.

Approximately 50% of world shipping passes through the South China Sea, much of it Persian Gulf oil destined for Japan, China, South Korea, and other states in the region.

But all of Asia and by extension the rest of the world is invested in this dispute: one third of the world's shipping passes through the South China Sea, and its rich fishing grounds are a vital food source for the region.

Between 1429 and 1657, Denmark controlled both shores and exacted tolls from all shipping passing through.

With a third of the world's shipping passing through its waters, the South China Sea is of vital strategic importance.

With it comes the near inevitability that Iran will attack oil shipping passing through the Strait of Hormuz shipping that carries some 20% of the world's supply of crude.

That's narrow enough for a well-sited gun emplacement to sink any and all merchant shipping passing through.

The ship passes underneath the famous ones, but I was seeing, for the first time, gems like the High Bridge in Harlem, the oldest in the city.

Windward can also track when a ship passes through traffic lanes.