How strategic chokepoints are reshaping maritime risk

David Mugridge and Chris Boyd, at Van Ameyde Marine, warn the changing world is here to stay

For decades, geopolitical crises were viewed by the maritime industry as temporary interruptions to an otherwise stable system of international commerce. Today, that assumption is increasingly difficult to support. Persistent strategic competition across the Strait of Hormuz, the Bab el-Mandeb and the Taiwan Strait suggests that geopolitical volatility is no longer an exceptional operating condition but a structural feature of global trade.