Every trade route that matters

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Curated, hand-researched global supply-chain paths — chokepoints, shipping lanes, and trade corridors — each with why it matters, historical precedents, and real, fetched citations preferring authoritative government/UN/IMF/World Bank sources. In the app: Menu → Supply Chain, part of Global Intelligence Premium.

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Every resolvable path plotted on a real map — search "oil", "copper", "wheat", or hover a category below to bold its routes. Points are approximate (country-level); physical chokepoints (straits, canals, named ports/pipelines) are marked in amber — everything else in a path's data stays in the detail cards below.

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10 of 20 — Human Endeavors

All 20 items in this category

Not a sector so much as the layer connecting every sector above it — where a single chokepoint can ripple through all of them at once. Beyond the 133 routes mapped above, here is the full ranked list of the category's constituent items.

Cited $24.62T in world merchandise exports, 2024. World Bank, sourced from WTO / UN Comtrade
Institutionally tracked Editorial judgment

Chokepoint, port, and trade-bloc items are directly sourced to IMF PortWatch, UNCTAD, and WTO; the full 20-item ranking itself is editorial, though stronger-evidenced than most other categories here.
Item citations: IMF PortWatch · UNCTADstat · WTO Statistics

Part of 20 Human Endeavors — see the full ranked list and every category's citations at /items/.