shipping lane

noun

1. sea lane.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shipping lane¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Fewer boats and fewer engines, it seems, now encounter ongoing vast demand to attempt a crossing – and so do so with more people in each boat, often with inadequate power to cross the busiest shipping lane in the world.

From BBC

More than 20 people have died this year attempting to cross the world’s busiest shipping lane in dangerously overloaded dinghies.

From BBC

The shipping lane bends west at Victoria to exit the Salish Sea through the Strait of Juan de Fuca, passing Port Angeles and Neah Bay, Washington, on the way out to the Pacific Ocean.

From Seattle Times

Those include stepped-up domestic production of much-needed drones, and securing a shipping lane for grain exports as Ukraine — a country without a formal navy — has sunk or disabled one-third of all Russian warships in the Black Sea with missile and drone attacks.

From Los Angeles Times

Denmark halted traffic in a busy shipping lane and closed the airspace above it on Thursday, warning of a possible accidental missile launch and falling debris.

From New York Times

Related Words

• sea lane