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Chokepoints – ten keys that

lock up the world. Or do they?

GLOBAL WHEN the 200,000-tonne container ship Ever easily can they be blocked by their owners, by
Given careered into the east bank of the Suez their neighbours, by hostile actors or by acci-
Canal in March 2021 and blocked it, a large dent? If blocked, how easily can they be forced
queue of merchant ships quickly built up at both open again? Are these in fact ten keys that lock
ends of the canal, waiting impatiently for it to be up the world, or not? ™
re-opened.
All over Europe businesses looked nervously READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE HERE:
to stock levels as their just-in-time calculations
were shredded. https://newsbase.com/story/chokepoints-
Ever Given was swiftly rescued from her ten-keys-that-lock-up-the-world-or-do-
sandy predicament (to be impounded pending they-211769
ransom from the Suez Canal Authority) but the
event makes this a good moment to review the Keep up to day with global energy affairs. Sign
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the world.
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