Strait Insider

The narrow places global trade has to squeeze through, explained — with maps, shipping context and a game or two.

What this site covers

A handful of narrow waterways carry a disproportionate share of the world’s seaborne trade. Close one and the effects reach fuel prices, freight rates and supply chains within days.

Strait Insider covers those chokepoints one at a time: the geography, how traffic is organised through them, what actually transits, and what happens when one stops working.

Straits covered

Each strait gets its own section with a full set of reference pages. More are planned; the Strait of Hormuz is the first and the most developed.

10 pages published across 1 strait.