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Container Shipping

Global Shipping's Chokepoints

With more and more shipping companies extending full or partial closures of Red Sea shipping routes due to attacks by Yemeni rebels, global trade could be seriously affected. According to a , 22-23 percent of maritime-traded goods between non-neighboring countries pass through the Red Sea, more specifically its chokepoints Bab-el-Mandeb and the Suez Canal. Other estimates even put the share of seaborne cargo passing through the area

The passage is also an important chokepoint for oil shipments - not as significant as the Strait of Hormuz or the Strait of Malacca - but still important. As a result of the situation, the global The Red Sea is also an important transit point for global food and fertilizer shipments, a type of commodity trade already thrown into disarray by the war in Ukraine as well as subsequent blockades of Black Sea shipping routes. , Bab-el-Mandeb saw the transit of almost 20 percent of global rice and almost 15 percent of global wheat exports previous to the pandemic and the Ukraine crisis. It is also important for fertilizer shipments.

The biggest chokepoints of global trade (by weight) are centered around China due to the country's export prowess. of goods traded globally are transported via sea routes. Calculating by value instead of weight, this number is still 70 percent.

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This chart shows the share of maritime-traded goods between non-neighboring nations passing through the following chokepoints (in percent).

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