53 Chokepoints The Tiny Waterways That Run The World

Summary

A handful of narrow straits and canals, including Hormuz, Suez, Panama, Malacca, Bab el-Mandeb, the Bosphorus, and Gibraltar, ... Sign up to Brilliant (the first 200 sign ups get 20% off an annual premium subscription): brilliant.org/tldr/ Carrying about 90% ... More than 80% of international trade by volume is transported by sea, making a 80% of everything you own traveled by sea and almost all of it squeezed through a handful of passages narrower than a city. The Strait of Malacca is a 2.7 kilometer wide shipping At the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the sea narrows into a corridor that can move the price of nearly everything. Twenty million ... On February 28, 2026, a 21-mile maritime corridor in the Middle East became the epicenter of a The Strait of Hormuz is a 21-mile-wide transit passage where two 2-mile shipping lanes move about 20 million barrels of ...