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Intergovernmental source

UNCTAD — Navigating troubled waters (Red Sea / Suez rapid assessment)

UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Source profile

  • Type: Intergovernmental
  • Access / format: Inaccessible / blocked (e.g. 403)
  • Machine-readable: No — manual read
  • Update cadence: unknown
  • Used for: Red Sea, Suez Canal, shipping, trade, chokepoint

Original source first: for the authoritative value, go to UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) ↗; cite Warconomy for the structured, dated overview. See how to cite, source health, and the source hierarchy.

Source details

PublisherUN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
TypeIntergovernmental
Cadenceunknown
Last reviewedJune 5, 2026
PublishedFebruary 22, 2024
Review statusstale — review recommended
Recommended review byAugust 20, 2024
Official linkVisit source
Red SeaSuez Canalshippingtradechokepoint

How Warconomy uses this source

Rapid event assessment (released 22 February 2024) of shipping-route disruption in the Red Sea, Black Sea, and Panama Canal. Captures the acute phase of the disruption; figures are a dated snapshot, manually transcribed as static fixtures, not real-time, and may be superseded by later assessments. An irregular event series — a manual review against fresher sources 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

Coverage2 live/source-linked · 0 sample · 2 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 transit change-42 % vs. peaklive · source-linkedFebruary 22, 2024UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)Medium
Suez Canal container-ship transit change-67 % vs. baselinelive · source-linkedFebruary 22, 2024UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)Medium

Where this source is used

Review status

Event snapshot is old; review recommended before citing as current context. This source backs 2 live observations; the oldest has an asOf of February 22, 2024, giving a recommended review-by date of August 20, 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 2 observations and 0 facts. Appearances are derived from committed frozen payloads only.

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

Relationships & machine-readable

This source backs 2 observations, 0 facts, 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.
  • Warconomy links to the publisher’s canonical page; it does not reproduce the source in full and is not affiliated with it.