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
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.
Though attention is currently on the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, the ripple effect from the complete closure of any waterway can be felt thousands of kilometres away, says Tim Culpan for Bloomberg Opinion.