Eric Watkins
Senior Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 -- Japanese Defense Minister Yoshinoro Ono, on a swing through Southeast Asia, has urged Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore to do more to protect oil shipping through the Malacca Strait from piracy and terrorism.
In April 2004, the US Energy Information Administration estimated that 11 million b/d of oil passed through Malacca Strait in 2003. About 50,000 vessels/year, both oil and nonoil, travel through the waterway, which is a narrow, 550 mile long passage between peninsular Malaysia and Indonesia's Sumatra island
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