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n. A route across an ocean, sea, or other body of water which is regularly used by commercial maritime vessels.
Usage examples of "shipping lane".
Tojo and his claque of imperial army boneheads said to him, in effect: Why don't you go out and secure the Pacific Ocean for us, because we'll need a convenient shipping lane, say, oh, about ten thousand miles wide, in order to carry out our little plan to conquer South America, Alaska, and all of North America west of the Rockies.
Why don't you go out and secure the Pacific Ocean for us, because we'll need a convenient shipping lane, say, oh, about ten thousand miles wide, in order to carry out our little plan to conquer South America, Alaska, and all of North America west of the Rockies.
As the Sally Ann made her way slowly through the shipping lane, a strong, resinous smell hung over town and river, trapped by the hot, sticky air.
The E-Boat had made good time and by eight o'clock they were through the minefields and into the main coastal shipping lane.
The E-Boat had made good time and by eight oclock they were through the minefields and into the main coastal shipping lane.
Pitt had cleared Cuban waters and was well into the main shipping lane of the Bahama Channel.
Treasure was one of the lures that had brought her, finally, to the Dry Tortugas, a major shipping lane during the days when Spanish galleons were heavy with gold plundered from the Incas and the Aztecs.
A few miles off the southern coast of Norway, before Lieutenant Pratt could set a course east onto the shipping lane for New York, they were attacked by a mysterious steam cutter that bore no national flag.
Attacking a Corvette on a New Republic shipping lane, she learns of the recently established colony on Dantooine.
It also seemed logical that it would head for probably the most popular shipping lane in the world.