Global Maritime Trade Security Simulator
Model how global sea lines of communication (SLOCs), naval freedom-of-navigation escorts, and chokepoint closures dictate international trade costs, transit delays, and sovereign resource vulnerabilities.
Global Shipping Lanes & Chokepoint Map
Global Risk: Nominal
Active Sea Lane (Normal)
Diverted / Rerouted Path
Open Strait
Militarized / Surcharged
Severed / Blockaded
Avg Transit Time
22.4 d
+0.0 days vs baseline
Global Bunker & Cape Cost
$2,140
Per FEU baseline / $82/bbl
War-Risk Insurance Index
1.00x
Standard Lloyd's Joint War
Daily Flow at High Risk
$0.0 B
0.0M bpd crude blocked
Geopolitical Assessment: Under the post-WWII Pax Americana, the United States Navy guarantees freedom of navigation through critical choke points (Malacca, Bab el-Mandeb, Hormuz) for all nations without charging transit tolls. This enables export-led powers like China to import over 70% of crude oil without maintaining a global blue-water escort armada.
Sovereign Resource & Export Exposure
| Power / Bloc | Chokepoint Reliance | Hydrocarbon Inflow Risk | Vulnerability Level |
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Blue-Water Naval Escort Deficit
If shipping requires continuous sovereign naval convoys (the historical norm before 1945), only nations with overseas replenishment bases and sufficient destroyer hulls can protect their merchant marine beyond home waters.