Strait of Malacca

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• There are only a few locations where the potential risks to international tanker traffic are great: the Strait of Hormuz, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, and the Strait of Malacca and the Strait of Singapore, in Southeast Asia.

  Academic text (2007)

• India's most important contribution to the war effort was sharing escort duty for high-value shipping through the Strait of Malacca and the Indian Ocean.

  Academic text (2003)

• At its western end, close to the Andaman Sea, the Strait of Malacca is 230 miles wide.

  Academic text (2007)

• The U.S. declarations focused on the South China Sea, but seaways west of the Strait of Malacca are also important.

  Academic text (1996)

• Oil bound for China, Japan, and the West Coast of the United States from the Middle East must also transit the Strait of Malacca and the Strait of Singapore, both of which carried 11.7 million barrels per day in 2004.

  Academic text (2007)

• Maybe we stood the watch together on some Cold War cruiser off the coast of Africa, Russia, or Greenland, or maybe we crossed the Pacific together and sailed through the Straits of Malacca, Indonesia, or Hormuz.

  Blog text (4)

• On Java and Sumatra, urbanization dates back to the eighth century A.D., when Srivijaya, near present-day Palembang, was the center of a trading empire on the Strait of Malacca.

  Academic text (1993)

• Around 30 percent of the world's traded goods pass through the Strait of Malacca, bordered by Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

• The stretch of sea from the Indian Ocean through the Strait of Malacca to the Pacific contains the world's most vibrant trade and energy routes.

• Piracy posed a major threat to the Strait of Malacca a few years ago.

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