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A sea lane, sea road or shipping lane is a regularly used navigable route for large water vessels on wide waterways such as oceans and large lakes, and is preferably safe, direct and economic. During the Age of Sail , they were determined by the distribution of land masses but also by the prevailing winds , whose discovery was crucial for the ...
Map of the Arctic region showing the bathymetry and the Northeast Passage, the Northern Sea Route within it, and the Northwest Passage. [1]Arctic shipping routes are the maritime paths used by vessels to navigate through parts or the entirety of the Arctic.
Sea lines of communication (abbreviated as SLOC) is a term describing the primary maritime routes between ports, used for trade, logistics and naval forces. [1] It is generally used in reference to naval operations to ensure that SLOCs are open, or in times of war, to close them.
Map of the Arctic region showing the Northern Sea Route, in the context of the Northeast Passage, and Northwest Passage [1]. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) (Russian: Се́верный морско́й путь, romanized: Severnyy morskoy put, shortened to Севморпуть, Sevmorput) is a shipping route about 5,600 kilometres (3,500 mi) long.
The shipping channels pass on opposite sides of Neebish Island in the St Marys River. The waterway allows passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the inland port of Duluth on Lake Superior, a distance of 2,340 miles (3,770 km) and to Chicago, on Lake Michigan, at 2,250 miles (3,620 km). [3]
The U.S. Navy's mission to claw back control of the Suez Canal and Red Sea from Houthi rebels has failed, resulting in a 90 percent decrease in container shipping and a 1,000 percent increase in ...
Five years later Bolognino Zaltieri issued a map showing a narrow and crooked Strait of Anian separating Asia from the Americas. The strait grew in European imagination as an easy sea lane linking Europe with the residence of Khagan (the Great Khan) in Cathay (northern China). Cartographers and seamen tried to demonstrate its reality.
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