Geostrategic Overview of Energy Maritime Routes

• Autores: Gonzalo Sirvent Zaragoza
• Localización: Energy and Geostrategy 2016, 2016, ISBN 978-84-9091-159-4, págs. 63-102
• Idioma: español
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  • The new world economic order arising out of the Bretton Woods Agreements bases one of its fundamental pillars on maritime trade. For maritime trade to accomplish its purpose a powerful fleet of merchant vessels is needed with high cargo capacity, along with the freedom to sail unthreatened down the Sea Lines of Communications (SLOCs).

    1 This need is even more critical in certain choke points, real bottlenecks where a high amount of oil tankers and gas carriers converge, whose free passage could be hindered or impeded by an armed conflict, by action from a certain State, terrorism or others. Should this traffic be interrupted, it would lead to severe delays in supplies and a major increase in prices on world markets, seriously affecting many countries, and entailing the risk of causing a general economic crisis.