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In military strategy, a choke point (or chokepoint), or sometimes bottleneck, is a geographical feature on land such as a valley, defile or bridge, or maritime passage through a critical waterway such as a strait, which an armed force is forced to pass through in order to reach its objective, sometimes on a substantially narrowed front and ...
The GIUK gap (sometimes written G-I-UK) is an area in the northern Atlantic Ocean that forms a naval choke point. Its name is an acronym for Greenland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom, the gap being the two stretches of open ocean among these three landmasses. It separates the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea from the open Atlantic Ocean. The ...
China's Critical Sea Lines of Communication. In 2004, over 80 percent of Chinese crude oil imports transited the Straits of Malacca, with less than 2 percent transiting the Straits of Lombok.
The nature of navigation and shipping activities as they are practised in Canada makes a uniform maritime law a practical necessity. Much of maritime law is the product of international conventions, and the legal rights and obligations of those engaged in navigation and shipping should not arbitrarily change according to jurisdiction.
In addition, it is also one of the world's most congested shipping choke points because it narrows to only 2.8 km (1.5 nautical miles) wide at the Phillip Channel (close to southern Singapore). [13] The draught of some of the world's largest ships (mostly oil tankers) exceeds the Strait's minimum depth of 25 metres (82 feet).
Canada: 2012 70 [170] 52.8 [171] 35.3 [171] 21 April 2022 VANIX: Vancouver Internet Exchange [172] Vancouver Canada: 2015 67 [173] 130 [174] — 21 April 2022 DIX: Danish Internet Exchange Point [175] Lyngby Denmark: 1994 45 [176] 113 [175] — 30 March 2020 Múli-IXP: Múli Internet Exchange Point Reykjavík Iceland: 2021 6 [177] 50 [178 ...
The Global Transportation Hub is also one of nine Foreign Trade Zone points in the country, and the only FTZ in Saskatchewan. As of July, 2024 the hub has 18 business, with 1010.2 acres of land sold since its inception while 497 acres remain for sale. The Hub Authority has been criticized for showing maps where all of the land is full. [3]
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We ' ll Win Them Back is a non-fiction book by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, published in 2022 by Scribe in Australia and the UK and Beacon Press in the United States.