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IMF PortWatch — Red Sea Attacks Disrupt Global Trade

International Monetary Fund

Source profile

  • Type: Intergovernmental
  • Access / format: Machine-readable (free CSV / feed / parsed XLSX)
  • Machine-readable: Yes — refreshable on demand
  • Update cadence: unknown
  • Used for: Red Sea, Suez Canal, shipping, trade

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Source details

PublisherInternational Monetary Fund
TypeIntergovernmental
Cadenceunknown
Last reviewedJune 5, 2026
PublishedMarch 7, 2024
Review statusstale — review recommended
Recommended review byAugust 27, 2024
Official linkVisit source
Red SeaSuez Canalshippingtrade

How Warconomy uses this source

IMF analysis drawing on the IMF/Oxford PortWatch platform (7 March 2024). PortWatch itself updates frequently, but the cited year-over-year figure is a dated point-in-time estimate, manually snapshotted here as a static fixture; not real-time and may be revised. A manual review against fresher PortWatch data is recommended over time.

Citation readiness

AuthorityInternational institution
Citation rolesource of record
Machine-citation readinesshigh readiness

Why

  • official publisher
  • backs a source-linked observation
  • deep link to the specific page/series
  • manually reviewed

Limitations

  • manually maintained static value, not real-time
  • irregular/policy cadence; re-verify against the source

Citation readiness is a derived label from the source’s authority, role, and how directly it backs a maintained value — not a correctness claim.

Indicators from this source

Coverage1 live/source-linked · 0 sample · 1 total
Sources1 source (1 official/research)
Newest live review
Stalenessstale — review overdue

Live/static indicators are manually maintained from cited public sources and are not real-time. Sample rows remain labeled.

IndicatorValueAs ofSourceConfidence
Suez Canal trade-volume change-50 % YoYlive · source-linkedFebruary 29, 2024International Monetary FundMedium

Facts citing this source

  • IMF PortWatch reported that the volume of trade transiting the Suez Canal fell by about 50% year over year in the first two months of 2024, while trade rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope rose by an estimated 74% — a reminder that chokepoint disruptions can reroute traffic rather than simply reduce global trade.

    Suez −50% YoY; Cape of Good Hope +74% (early 2024)Reported by International Monetary FundAs of March 7, 2024High

Where this source is used

Review status

Event snapshot is old; review recommended before citing as current context. This source backs 1 live observation; the oldest has an asOf of February 29, 2024, giving a recommended review-by date of August 27, 2024 for its unknown cadence. Review status is a re-check signal, not a correctness claim.

How to refresh: open the cited unknownsource, confirm the latest value and date, update the observation’s value, asOf, and lastReviewed, then bump the site review date. See the data review queue for sitewide priorities.

Version history

This source is byte-present in 151 frozen dataset versions (v1.37.0–v1.187.0), citing 1 observation and 1 fact. Appearances are derived from committed frozen payloads only.

Full record history: records/source--imf-portwatch-red-sea/data.json.

Relationships & machine-readable

This source backs 1 observation, 1 fact, and appears in 2 provenance records. See the source JSON (includes a source relationship graph), the per-record provenance export, and the source health checklist.

Limitations

  • Values referencing this source are manually maintained static fixtures, not real-time and not automatically updated.
  • Figures may be revised by the publisher in later releases; review cadence depends on the source.
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