00:00A 1.7-mile stretch of water controls 25% of all oil shipped on planet Earth.
00:07This narrow shipping corridor links the Indian Ocean directly to the South China Sea for massive tankers.
00:14Over 100,000 commercial vessels squeeze through this shallow channel every single year, without stopping.
00:22If a blockage halts transit here, Asian refineries starve within days, and global fuel prices skyrocket instantly.
00:31Rerouting around Indonesia adds thousands of miles and burns billions in extra maritime fuel consumption costs.
00:39Modern global trade and energy supply chains depend heavily on this tiny maritime choke point.
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