What could disrupt a maritime corridor — war-risk, piracy, sanctions exposure, weather and chokepoint status — scored per lane from 11 intelligence signals, with the honest Suez-vs-Cape reroute delta. Pick a corridor to see what changed and what to ask your forwarder.
Risk scores last computed 2026-07-26 · refreshed weekly
The world’s busiest container lane — and the one most exposed to the Red Sea / Bab-el-Mandeb war-risk diversions.
Ningbo-Zhoushan to North Europe via Suez and the Red Sea.
China to the east Mediterranean gateway at Piraeus — straight through the Red Sea war-risk zone.
Korea to North Europe via the Red Sea corridor.
The main artery for Taiwan-built goods into the western Mediterranean — now running straight through the Red Sea / Bab-el-Mandeb war-risk zone and the Gulf of Aden piracy corridor.
South China’s electronics-and-furniture gateway at Yantian to Antwerp — a core Asia–North Europe box lane now routed through, or all the way around, the Red Sea war-risk zone.
Shanghai to Britain’s busiest container port at Felixstowe — the East Asia–to–UK trunk lane exposed to Bab-el-Mandeb diversions and Suez transit risk.
South China to Spain’s western-Mediterranean hub at Valencia — a Med-bound lane that pays the heaviest schedule penalty when the Red Sea forces a Cape of Good Hope reroute.
Ningbo-Zhoushan to Genoa and the Ligurian industrial belt — an Asia–Mediterranean lane threading Bab-el-Mandeb, the Suez Canal and the central Med.
North China’s Qingdao to Hamburg — a long Asia–North Europe haul whose ETA swings most when Red Sea conditions move the routing.
The Singapore-to-North-Europe trunk route through Malacca, Bab-el-Mandeb and Suez.
Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City to Rotterdam — a fast-growing Southeast Asia–North Europe lane carrying manufacturing shifted out of China, straight through the Red Sea corridor.
Malaysia’s Port Klang to Rotterdam — a Strait-of-Malacca-to-North-Europe trunk lane via Bab-el-Mandeb and Suez.
India’s largest container port at Nhava Sheva (JNPT) to Rotterdam — a South Asia–North Europe lane funnelling through the Gulf of Aden and Bab-el-Mandeb.
Mundra on India’s northwest coast to Valencia — a short-on-paper India–Mediterranean lane that more than doubles in length when the Red Sea is closed to it.
A core Russian-crude artery since the G7 price cap: Baltic loadings out of Primorsk to the Sikka terminal serving India’s largest west-coast refining complex.
Black Sea Russian crude to India’s west coast via the Bosphorus and Suez — a lane that threads three chokepoints and sanctioned waters.
Black Sea Russian crude to the Chinese seaboard — long-haul via Suez and the Red Sea war-risk zone.
ESPO-grade crude out of Russia’s Pacific coast into China’s Shandong refining cluster — the short sanctioned-origin Pacific haul.
Russian Baltic crude from Ust-Luga to India’s Mundra — the long sanctioned-origin haul around Europe and through Suez.
Iranian barrels out of the Strait of Hormuz to China — the textbook sanctioned-origin, dark-fleet lane.
Iran’s main crude export terminal at Kharg Island to China, via Hormuz and Malacca.
Venezuelan heavy crude from the Jose terminal to China — sanctioned origin, long Atlantic-to-Pacific haul via Panama.