FWIW, I'm not color blind, and I find them very difficult to see as well. Especially as they are very thin, and very close in color to deep water.
In some maps I have seen channels are marked with a relatively thick white band, frequently black bordered, and sometimes with a blue dashed line in the middle. Sometimes the background is a super-pale blue, not white, but that would be something like "azure" or "aliceblue" from https://htmlcolorcodes.com/color-names/
While not strictly accurate as a "shipping route", I think it would be a fine choice to represent the sea lanes in this mod. It also is a quite stylized way to represent them which, honestly, I think is accurate enough since they are not really a visible artifact in the "real world".
For example, these:
https://d2wb2wm9dm62ai.cloudfront.net/contentmanager/content/STANDARD_A_800x560_NC-30-years.jpg
https://d2wb2wm9dm62ai.cloudfront.net/contentmanager/content/STANDARD_A_800x560-track.jpg