Where we can identify which published freight benchmark a story pushes on, we label it and say in which direction. We never publish a number we can't cite — a direction with a mechanism, or a reading with a link. Stories without a label are listed for context.

ObservedA published benchmark has moved. Cited, with the reading and its date.
StructuralA standing physical or commercial relationship — how a disruption here reaches this benchmark. Not a forecast that it has.
CommunityProposed by a member and corroborated by others. Not independently verified by a benchmark.

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Corridors we track

The chokepoints, gateways and inland corridors where a local problem becomes a freight-market event. Each carries sourced baseline volumes — see any story tagged to it.

Global chokepoints

Hormuz Suez Bab el-Mandeb Malacca Panama Turkish Straits Taiwan Strait Cape

Domestic corridors

LA / Long Beach Chicago rail Mississippi Land borders US Gulf

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