Sentences with phrase «sea lanes»

The report also highlights challenges that may flare up as ice melt opens up more sea lanes.

There were probably more ships in more areas not routinely observed from normal sea lanes.

Will we be ready for both that opportunity and a new sea lane to defend?

Andy; I notice that you didn't mention any of the controversy surrounding the use of large numbers or icebreaking ships which may, as a side effect, keep sea lanes open all year round in the Arctic by denying the area the stability time to generate thick ice.

The Arctic is an important area where the Canadian military presence is weak and needs to be strengthened as global warming adds to the strategic importance of Arctic sea lanes.

For example, my post showing that the economic benefits of «keeping sea lanes open» could not justify more than a trivial proportion of current naval expenditure, got hardly any substantive responses (apart from tiger - repelling rocks), but a great many saying «what about the pirates?».

Operation ATALANTA aims to secure sea lanes by combating piracy in that region (see the 2008 Joint Action launching the operation here and its renewal, decided upon in 2014, here).

The captains of the oil tankers plying the newly - freed sea lanes of the Arctic Basin will need to beware ice.

The Indian Ocean, which borders Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, is home to major sea lanes and choke points that are crucial to global trade.

Russia has looked to establish a version of eLoran called eChayka, aimed at the Arctic region as sea lanes open up there, but the project has stalled for now.

Artificial islands, installations and structures and the safety zones around them may not be established where interference may be caused to the use of recognized sea lanes essential to international navigation.

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Summer sea ice in the Arctic is declining at an estimated rate of 10 percent per decade or more, and Arctic Ocean sea lanes could be open as early as the summer of 2030.

Arctic nations have so far collaborated more than clashed in pondering increased activity as warming opens summer sea lanes and our rising resource thirst prompts more Arctic activity.

Global warming is remaking the Arctic, with changes like ice - free sea lanes across the Arctic Ocean in summer, or no - longer - so - eternal permafrost on land, unprecedented in human history.

While there are occasional military issues where the two countries do not see eye - to - eye (for example on whether the Arctic sea lanes are internal waters, as Canada claims, or are international waters, the view of the US), for the most part they are in synch.

«If a Saudi tanker is sunk with 2 million barrels of oil, people are going to start worrying about the security of the sea lanes.

«There is a long - standing view that once the Portuguese entered the Indian Ocean» — opening sea lanes to Europe in the 16th century — «no one bothered to cross Central Asia,» said project manager Kathryn Franklin, also of UChicago.

If you factor in what taxpayers are footing for deployment of troops overseas and keeping the sea lanes open for oil importation, the cost of gasoline is about $ 12 to $ 13 a gallon.

As their economies expand, there is growing concern about the sea lanes that provide their energy needs.

The region is warming up for four more days as of today, from the continent into the edge of the Arctic sea lane that the boats need to traverse.