OCEAN · MARITIME CHOKEPOINTS

Maritime Chokepoints

The narrow sea-gates almost all of world trade squeezes through — the Strait of Hormuz (about a fifth of the world’s oil), the Strait of Malacca (roughly a quarter of all traded goods, the busiest gate on Earth), the Suez Canal (~12% of world trade and a fifth of all container traffic), plus Bab-el-Mandeb, the Panama Canal, the Bosphorus, Gibraltar and the Danish Straits, and the Cape of Good Hope as the great detour round Africa. Tap a gate for its share of world oil or trade and why a blockage there ripples worldwide. The authored WHY behind the live Ships traffic on the Earth canvas.