Author Archive for: Patrick Willemsen

Policymakers and business leaders should pay attention to the multiple ways in which access to key economic inputs can be disrupted, whether through control over supplies or threats to transport, specifically maritime transport routes. Even in optimistic high access scenarios where there is increased supply and more suppliers, much of the world’s trade will still take place over a limited set of maritime transport routes and through very few maritime chokepoints. This new HCSS report assesses the supply of key economic resources along global supply chains from the Indo-Pacific, the stability of access to them in the future, as well as potential vulnerabilities.