A handful of narrow sea passages carry a disproportionate share of the world's seaborne oil, gas, grain and containers. When conflict raises the risk on one of them, ships divert onto longer routes, insurance rises, and costs ripple into the things people buy. This map is an orientation layer over the chokepoints Warconomy tracks — pick one to see what it carries and where to follow it.
- Strait of Hormuz: Gulf oil & LNG.
- Red Sea / Suez: Asia–Europe container trade.
- Bab el-Mandeb: Red Sea southern gate.
- Panama Canal: US–Asia & LNG / agri.
- Turkish Straits (Black Sea): Black Sea grain & energy.
- South China Sea: Busy Asian trade lanes.
- Taiwan Strait: Chips & regional shipping.
Schematic map for orientation only — simplified shapes and approximate pins, not a precise map, not a statement about control or status, and not a live ship tracker.
Strait of Hormuz
A narrow passage that a large share of the world's seaborne oil and much of its LNG must transit, so disruption risk there carries outsized weight for energy markets.
What it carries
Most of the Gulf's crude-oil and LNG exports toward Asia and Europe.
Exposed commodities
What this does not prove: Risk and exposure, not a claim that any disruption is occurring or a forecast that one will.
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Machine-readable: /chokepoints/map/data.json.