1. Somali pirates seized a chemical tanker and a cargo vessel late on Monday, underlining the continued risk to shipping in some of the world's busiest trade routes.
2. The Straits commercial ship's current and expected routes will develop Pingtan as a communication and trade center between both sides of the Taiwan Straits.
3. They also decided to expedite custom procedures and expand air routes to improve trade and personnel exchanges.
4. The Silk Road is a fretwork of trade routes dating back to 1500 BC.
5. Grotius'doctrine was in support of Dutch trade with East India via sea routes.
6. But pirates still threaten trade routes in the Indian Ocean and have widened their scope of attacks.
7. To reduce the risk, the government will naturally seek to secure trade routes and supplies.
8. To protect trade routes and the sprawling empire, defense spending was huge by today's standards.
9. The project was first proposed by Mongolia in April over fears that increased truck hauling of coal might damage trade routes.
10. The oases and their trade routes were likely key to the survival of the Egyptian kingdom.