HOUTINI

Arterial Flow

The world's maritime chokepoints, the arteries of global trade. Each node is sized by how many ships pass through it and coloured by how far that sits from its 2024 baseline. Squeeze a chokepoint and the traffic bleeds onto longer routes (the classic case: ships avoiding Suez and Bab-el-Mandeb and taking the long way round the Cape of Good Hope). Live data from IMF PortWatch.

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transit calls per day below the 2024 baseline across constrained chokepoints, a proxy for the traffic currently diverting onto longer, slower routes.
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Constrained (below baseline) Normal Elevated (absorbing diversion) No data Node size = transit volume