Goods & Chokepoints
The straits much of world trade must pass, the goods that cross them, and who depends on each, with the network map and the full Energy and Value chains views.
This page answers: Which straits and goods does world trade depend on, and who depends on each?
Using this page
- Open a strait or a good for its own page.
- Open the Network map to see suppliers, straits and buyers on one map.
- Open Energy or Value chains for the full views by fuel and by chain.
The network map
Suppliers, straits and buyers on one map, good by good, with the Stock Clock.
Straits
Strait of Hormuz
14 goods on file pass it on their modelled routes.
Nearest related forecast; not a closure probability.
Bab el-Mandeb
16 goods on file pass it on their modelled routes.
Nearest related forecast; not a closure probability.
Strait of Malacca
17 goods on file pass it on their modelled routes.
No forecast on this strait yet.
Taiwan Strait
No flow on file passes it on its modelled route.
In preparation Suez Canal, Panama Canal, the Turkish Straits, the Danish Straits.
Goods A to Z
- Aluminium 48 flows on file
- Crude oil 47 flows on file
- Electric cars and batteries value chain: Batteries and cars
- Helium 12 flows on file
- LNG 14 flows on file
- Polyethylene and polypropylene 42 flows on file
- Refined fuels 52 flows on file
- Rice 32 flows on file
- Semiconductors value chain: Chips and electronics
- Sulphur 16 flows on file
- Urea and nitrogen fertilisers 12 flows on file
- Wheat 27 flows on file
On file, no page yet Ammonia, Argon, neon and other rare gases, Barley, Battery anode and cathode materials, Coal, Cobalt, Electric cars, Electricity, LPG, Maize, Methanol, Phosphates, Pipeline gas, Uranium and enriched uranium. They are in the network map; a good has its own page when the network pack carries 10 or more flows for it.
Energy and value chains
Energy
Crude, oil products, LNG, pipeline gas, coal and electricity between countries, and the straits they pass.
Global value chains
Chips and electronics, batteries and cars: the country that leads each stage, and the straits its inputs cross.
Full analyst view
Sources and licences
No figure on this page yet.
Cite this page Strature, “Goods & Chokepoints”, Strature GPS, https://strature.net/gps/goods/, 31 Oct 2026.
Notes and limits
- Nearest related forecast; not a closure probability.
- We say “the Gulf” for the sea also called the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Gulf.
- Routes are modelled, not ship tracks; not for navigation.
- No data provider endorses Strature or this page, and none is affiliated with us.
- General research, not advice.