Sohnke-Ways

Sohnke-Ways was the name for shipping lanes in the North Sea , which were demined after the Second World War to ensure safe ship passages.

The British ship insurance " Lloyd’s " named these motorway-like routes after one of their inventors, Franz Peter Sohnke , who was then the first chairman of the Sub-Committee for Safety and Navigation of the International Maritime Organization and later Ministerialrat of the Maritime Transport Department of the Federal Ministry of Transport .