The world's sea lanes are full of ships slow steaming at break-even prices.
Obviously, the further you are away from the shore and the sea lanes, the better.
In particular, it provides for special rules for an archipelagic sea lanes passage for drawing baselines.
The vital rôle for it is to keep the sea lanes open.
Therefore, it is so vital that the sea lanes remain open.
It is also worried about the impossibility of defending the sea lanes of communication in wartime.
I wonder whether talk about keeping the sea lanes open is really realistic if anyone here is thinking in terms of nuclear war.
The questions of our sea lanes over a long period of attrition and of conventional attacks are not to be excluded.
