And I have learned that even landlocked lovers yearn for the sea like navy men.

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Together with a newly created economic zone at Bandar Abbas, they are almost on top of the busy shipping lanes through which much of the world's oil passes and offer a logical staging-point for the trade from landlocked Central Asia to the sea.

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"The real decisions will be taken in Brussels this December at the annual bun fight between the 25 member states of the EU with Scotland absent and even landlocked countries having more of say over the future of the North Sea than we do, " he said.

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Most oilfields are in the landlocked south, which needs northern pipelines to Port Sudan on the Red Sea to export the stuff.

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Since falling out with Eritrea and the port-state of Djibouti, Ethiopia, the region's landlocked superpower, has hit on Berbera as its easiest access to the sea.

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