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Canals aren't even the world's biggest shipping chokepoints

Thousands of miles from Suez and Panama, waterways that carry large swathes of global commerce are vulnerable to disruptions that will shake up supply chains

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Canals not the biggest shipping choke points

When traffic through the Suez Canal ground to a halt in 2021, the extraordinary cost and disruptions to global commerce seemed overwhelming.

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Canals aren't even the world's biggest shipping chokepoints

More than a quarter of goods transport passes through a 25-mile wide stretch of water that separates Indonesia to the southwest from Singapore and Malaysia to the northeast, known as the Malacca Strait.

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Shipping disruption: Malacca Strait, South China Sea and East China Sea are bigger choke points than the Suez Canal

The South China Sea alone carries trade equivalent to 5 per cent of global GDP, which would make it the fourth-largest economy in the world.

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Supply Chains: Canals aren't even the world's biggest shipping chokepoints

Five thousand miles from the canals of Suez and Panama lie even more important shipping lanes, chokepoints that could cripple global trade should any disaster befall them

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