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Shipping’s Chokepoint Risks

Joseph Bonney | Feb 21, 2011 5:00AM GMT
The Journal of Commerce Magazine - News Story

The upheaval in Egypt put a troubling focus on the handful of narrow channels that serve global supply chains

The map says it all. The shortest route from Asia to Europe and the Mediterranean is through the Suez Canal. Detouring around Africa adds a week of sailing time to those


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