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Origin of shipping lane

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby shipping lane

shipping, shipping agent, shipping articles, shipping clerk, shipping fever, shipping lane, shipping room, shipping ton, shippon, ship-rigged, ship's articles

How to use shipping lane in a sentence

When the Ever Given, a 400-meter container ship, ran aground in the Suez Canal on March 23, it choked off a busy shipping lane for the global oil and gas trade.
Russia is in no hurry to see the Suez Canal re-opened|Tim McDonnell|March 27, 2021|Quartz
Like much of the Asia to Europe traffic that transits one of the world’s most important shipping lanes, the Taiwan-operated mega tanker had been bound for Rotterdam.
How That Massive Container Ship Stuck in the Suez Canal Is Already Costing the World Billions of Dollars|Joseph Hincks|March 25, 2021|Time
Tracking the transition between the two song styles may help us protect these endangered animals as they move towards busy shipping lanes.
We can protect whales from ship strikes by translating their songs|Kate Baggaley|October 2, 2020|Popular-Science
That could be one piece of the puzzle to more dynamically manage those habitats and shipping lanes in a way that allows shipping to continue, but also in a way that is safe for these whale populations.
We can protect whales from ship strikes by translating their songs|Kate Baggaley|October 2, 2020|Popular-Science

Second, the detector just tells you there is a whale in the Santa Barbara Channel region, and not whether it actually is in or near the shipping lane.
Whale ‘roadkill’ is on the rise off California. A new detection system could help.|Erik Olsen|September 29, 2020|Popular-Science
This week the Church of England named the Reverend Libby Lane as its first female bishop.
First Anglican Woman Bishop A Return to Christian Roots|Candida Moss|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Manufacturing merchandise, publicity (a radio ad in SF, Facebook ads, venue specific advertising), supplies, shipping.
How Much Money Does a Band Really Make on Tour?|Jack Conte|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A plastic factory, a hardware supplier, and shipping–and-receiving giants like Fed-Ex and DHL are neighboring businesses.
House of the Witch: The Renegade Craft Brewers of Panama|Jeff Campagna|November 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Former cadet Lane said he only saw Jackson attempt to catch one of them.
Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor|S. C. Gwynne|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Down a one-lane gravel road sits the house Burton left seven years ago.
Mrs. Manson, Hometown Antihero|Justin Glawe|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The order of meals at Lane End was somewhat peculiar even then, and would now be almost unique.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
The main entrance is in the centre of the St. Martin's Lane front, and consists of a central roadway for carts and wagons, 15ft.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
They walked silently down the lane together, Gilbert sullen and mortified, Dorothy pitying but resolute.
The World Before Them|Susanna Moodie
Water Street, formerly Water Lane, had a brook running down one side of it when houses were first built there.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
Mis' Calvert, she saw you in a lane, or somethin', and fetched you back to that Baltimore city where the both of you lived.
Dorothy at Skyrie|Evelyn Raymond

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