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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 choke point’ ... president of Alliance International Shipping, said his company handles 52% of all container shipments from South Florida to Haiti. ... Old Navy's Break a Sweat Sale has ...
EMASoH has also emphasized the 2021 Suez Canal obstruction as an example of the importance of maritime choke points and the EMASoH mission. The April 2021 EMASoH Information bulletin states that although the Strait of Hormuz cannot be blocked by a ship like in the Suez Canal, the mission is working to ensure a "Suez-effect" does not happen.
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).
The GIUK gap in the North Atlantic (showing international boundaries as of 1983) 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.
Beijing is working to strangle economically and militarily U.S. maritime and naval sea routes by controlling key choke points and naval transit routes. Trump’s second term was always going to be ...
Indonesian waters also host four of the world’s nine choke points. [14] These four choke points are used for national and international shipping routes. Indonesia as an archipelago, is responsible for maintaining security in the international shipping routes of the Archipelagic Sea Lanes (ASL), as stated by the 1982 United Nations Convention ...
[5] [6] Sea lines of communication (SLOC) carry more than 90% of global trade. [7] In Indo-Pacific Asia, US$5 trillion annual shipping trade passes through the SLOC and choke points of Southeast Asia and South China Sea (SCS). [7] 80% of the global trade passes through Indian Ocean SLOC in oil and natural gas critical for advanced economies. [7]