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Chokepoints: The 10 keys

that lock up the world.

Or do they?

GUEST COMMENT WHEN the 200,000-tonne container ship Ever event makes this a good moment to review the
Green careered into the east bank of the Suez world’s maritime choke points.
Canal in March 2021 and blocked it, a large There are 10 significant chokepoints around
queue of merchant ships quickly built up at both the world. Where are they? How choking are
ends of the canal, waiting impatiently for it to be they?
re-opened. All over Europe businesses looked How easily can they be blocked by their own-
nervously to stock levels, as their just-in-time ers, by their neighbours, by hostile actors or
calculations were shredded. by accident? If blocked, how easily can they be
Ever Given was swiftly rescued from her forced open again?
sandy predicament (to be impounded pending Are these, in fact, 10 keys that lock up the
ransom from the Suez Canal Authority) but the world, or not? ™

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