Maritime corpus
Chokepoints and waterways
The maritime chokepoints and waterways World Monitor tracks — the narrow straits and canals where a disruption removes optionality from global trade, energy and food flows.
Bab el-Mandeb
Red Sea ↔ Gulf of Aden Bosporus Strait
Black Sea ↔ Sea of Marmara Cape of Good Hope
Atlantic ↔ Indian Ocean Dover Strait
English Channel ↔ North Sea Kerch Strait
Black Sea ↔ Sea of Azov Korea Strait
East China Sea ↔ Sea of Japan Lombok Strait
Indian Ocean ↔ Java Sea Panama Canal
Atlantic ↔ Pacific Strait of Gibraltar
Atlantic ↔ Mediterranean Strait of Hormuz
Persian Gulf ↔ Gulf of Oman Strait of Malacca
Indian Ocean ↔ South China Sea Suez Canal
Mediterranean ↔ Red Sea Taiwan Strait
East China Sea ↔ South China Sea
Red Sea ↔ Gulf of Aden Bosporus Strait
Black Sea ↔ Sea of Marmara Cape of Good Hope
Atlantic ↔ Indian Ocean Dover Strait
English Channel ↔ North Sea Kerch Strait
Black Sea ↔ Sea of Azov Korea Strait
East China Sea ↔ Sea of Japan Lombok Strait
Indian Ocean ↔ Java Sea Panama Canal
Atlantic ↔ Pacific Strait of Gibraltar
Atlantic ↔ Mediterranean Strait of Hormuz
Persian Gulf ↔ Gulf of Oman Strait of Malacca
Indian Ocean ↔ South China Sea Suez Canal
Mediterranean ↔ Red Sea Taiwan Strait
East China Sea ↔ South China Sea
Source: src/dispatch/config/chokepoint-registry.ts.